Criminal Procedure

This book succinctly outlines all of the significant facets of sentencing principles and procedure, and provides the reader with a comprehensive range of sentencing for various offences.

Building on general principles, this text tackles both common and unusual sentencing issues and questions, and pragmatically discusses plea negotiations, procedure and advocacy, dangerous offenders, types of sentences, Charter considerations, appellate issues, and ancillary orders, as well as post-sentencing issues.

This collection of essays explore all key aspects of sentencing including the wider context in which sentencing and parole decisions are taken, and sentencing Indigenous persons.

This text examines the historical and modern considerations applied in determining ranges of sentences for over 40 specific offences under the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA).

Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of colonization. This text navigates the issues in sentencing by examining related discourses in selected judgments from a review of 175 decisions.

Murdocca examines the disconnect between the political motivations for amending historical injustices and the vastly disproportionate reality of the penal system in this text.