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"Offering a comment on the justification for sentences, this work refutes jurisprudential attacks on the propriety of mercy, and discusses the shortcomings of the Court of Appeal's approaches to consistency and other principles of sentencing. The appendices list ""guideline cases"" and definitions of ""seriousness"" for the purpose of different statutes."

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`... provides a good overview of sentencing issues and the difficulties facing sentencers. There is no disputing Nigel Walker's authority in the area of sentencing. ... it is hard, after reading this book, to resist the argument of the restorative justice proponents that the system needs to be reconceptualised.' Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol. 12, No. 3, March 2001 `An excellent book.' Justice of the Peace

... provides a good overview of sentencing issues and the difficulties facing sentencers. There is no disputing Nigel Walker's authority in the area of sentencing. ... it is hard, after reading this book, to resist the argument of the restorative justice proponents that the system needs to be reconceptualised. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol. 12, No. 3, March 2001 An excellent book. Justice of the Peace

`... provides a good overview of sentencing issues and the difficulties facing sentencers. There is no disputing Nigel Walker's authority in the area of sentencing. ... it is hard, after reading this book, to resist the argument of the restorative justice proponents that the system needs to be reconceptualised.' Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol. 12, No. 3, March 2001 `An excellent book.' Justice of the Peace

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Nigel Walker founded what is now the Oxford Centre for Criminological Research and was Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.

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