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Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders

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Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence ...
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  • 13 May 2025
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Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases.

Judges have made it clear that sentences of 15 years to life imprisonment are to be reserved for offending that is ‘truly egregious’. Griffin, using over 100 serious sexual offence cases, examines what this means in practice. The book is designed to be used in the classroom and the court, as well as providing a solid evidence base to inform the public and policy discourse on sentencing.

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Price: $67.95
Pages: 172
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
ISBN: 9781529234732
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Sentencing and punishment, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, Violent crimes, Criminal law: offences against the person
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"Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders provides a timely and unique analysis of sentencing law and practice for the most serious sexual offences in Ireland. Diarmuid Griffin’s volume represents a very significant contribution to the literature and offers much insight into the judicial response to sexual offending." Julian Roberts, University of Oxford and Executive Director of the Sentencing Academy
Diarmuid Griffin is Lecturer in criminal law at the University of Galway.

1. The Apex of Seriousness

2. Getting to Guidance

3. Deconstructing Sentences

4. Sentencing Crimes Committed Against Adult Victims

5. Sentencing Crimes of Child Sexual Abuse

6. Factoring in Judges

7. Conclusion