Research Guides: Criminal Law: Sentencing

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Sentencing

Sentencing, 10th edition by Clayton C. Ruby et al.
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2020
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.
Sentencing: Principles and Practice by Danielle Robitaille and Erin Winocur
Call Number: KE9355 .R62 2020 LAW (Reserve)
Publication Date: 2020
This text is part of the CRIMINAL LAW SERIES.
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.
Sentencing: The Practitioner's Guide by Gary R. Clewley and Paul G. McDermott
Call Number: KE9355 S44 1999 LAW (Reserve)
Publication Date: Updated regularly
Also available online on Westlaw Edge's CriminalSource.
This text provides a comprehensive access to legal principles, case law, and decisions of Canada's highest courts, this invaluable resource provides the insight and information to let you determine the most appropriate sentence and plea considerations for your client.
Sentencing and Penal Policy in Canada: Cases, Materials, and Commentary, 3rd edition by Allan Manson et al.
Call Number: KE9355 .S442 2016 LAW
Publication Date: 2016
This text provides a comprehensive analysis of sentencing laws and principles in Canada. This text covers all aspects of sentencing law, including judicial methodology, aggravating and mitigating factors, plea discussions, probation, and imprisonment.
Sentencing Drug Offenders by Simon Armstrong et al.
Call Number: KE9050.A6 S46 2004 LAW
Publication Date: looseleaf current to 2019
This handy resource offers detailed chapters on 20 different drugs with particular emphasis on the most commonly used substances as well as an explanation of the offences, schedules and penalties under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA).
Sentencing in Canada by David Cole and Julian Roberts
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2020
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.
Sentencing Ranges for Criminal Offences by Clayton R. Ruby and Sheila Nemet-Brown
Call Number: KE9355 .R83 2021 LAW
Publication Date: 2021
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).

Specific Sentencing Topics in Canada

Implicating the System: Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women by Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2019
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.
To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada by Carmela Murdocca
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2013
Murdocca examines the disconnect between the political motivations for amending historical injustices and the vastly disproportionate reality of the penal system in this text.

Comparative Sentencing Procedure

Life Imprisonment: a Global Human Rights Analysis by Dirk Van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2019
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights-based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment.
Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: A Comparative & Cross-National Perspectives by Michael Tonry
Call Number: K5121 .S47 2016 LAW
Publication Date: 2017
This text is part of the CRIME & JUSTICE series. This resource is composed of a series of essays outlining the sentencing policies and practices across Western jurisdictions, including: Canada, England, Australia, the U.S., and Nordic Countries.
Sentencing Rape: A Comparative Analysis by Graeme Brown
Call Number: K5197 .B76 2020 LAW
Publication Date: 2020
This book presents an in-depth comparative study of sentencing practice for rape in six common law jurisdictions: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. It provides a thorough review of the medical literature on the physical and psychological effects of rape, the legal and philosophical literature on the seriousness of the offence, and the victim's role in sentencing.

Sentencing Quantum Digests

Canada Sentencing Quantums
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Canada Sentencing Quantums is a comprehensive source of sentencing summaries from 1997 to the present. Canada Sentencing Quantums contains summaries of court cases and can be searched according to the sanction imposed, including imprisonment, fines and conditional sentences. Cases can also be accessed according to sentencing considerations, including aggravating and mitigating circumstances, deterrence and time already served.