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Reforming the sentencing and release of terrorist offenders.

Kelly, Rory
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https://hdl.handle.net/10379/18534
 https://doi.org/10.13025/29328
Publication Date
2023
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terrorism, sentencing, proportionality, minimum sentences, maximum sentences
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Kelly, Rory. (2023). Reforming the sentencing and release of terrorist offenders. Criminal Law Review.
Abstract
The sentencing and release of terrorist offenders were the subject of statutory reform in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The changes have included: the introduction of a new type of sentence, extending the applicability of existing sentences, toughening existing sentences, increasing maximum sentences, obligating the consideration of a terrorist connection as an aggravating factor, delaying release, and removing mandatory release. The effects of these repeated reforms have been to leave the law on sentencing terrorists unduly complicated, often without compelling rationale, and ever more severe. The discretion of sentencing judges and the Parole Board has also been problematically narrowed. It is argued that the time has come for an independent and principled review, which focuses on rationalising the current law.
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Sweet and Maxwell
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