The Origins and Evolution of Principled Sentencing
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The Origins and Evolution of Principled Sentencing is part of the 2016 Contextual Lecture Series: Taking Liberties.
Magna Carta contains one of the earliest formal declarations of proportionality in sentencing, namely that legal punishments should be proportional to the gravity of the crime for which they are imposed. This principle now guides sentencing practices in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions. This presentation explores current sentencing law and policy, tracing the status quo back to Magna Carta.
Prof Julian Roberts teaches sentencing at the University of Oxford. He has been a visiting professor at many universities including Cambridge, Minnesota, Haifa, Leuven, Toronto, and Brussels. Author: Punishing Persistent Offenders; Popular Punishment, and Criminal Justice: A Very Short introduction, OUP
