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Australia province to start utilizing community-based "sentencing councils"

By Douglas A. Berman

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This interest local story from Australia, which is headliend "Community 'sentencing council' to advise on legal punishments," reports on an notable development Down Under. Here are the details: The Queensland Government says the community will get more of a say in how criminals are punished. Members of the public will be invited to join a sentencing council. It will include victims of crime and experts in criminal law and juvenile and Indigenous justice. Attorney-General Cameron Dick says it will advise the Government on criminal sentencing, and on Court of Appeal guideline judgments. "The purpose of the council is to bridge the gap between community expectations, Government and the Judiciary in relation to criminal sentencing," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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