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The Adventure Continues, Steven Chanenson
Sentencing Beyond Our Borders, Steven Chanenson
Sentencing Beyond Our Borders, Steven Chanenson
Steven L. Chanenson
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Determination Of Starting Sentences In Israel—System And Application, Oren Gazal-Ayal, Ruth Kannai
Determination Of Starting Sentences In Israel—System And Application, Oren Gazal-Ayal, Ruth Kannai
Oren Gazal-Ayal
The Israeli Penal Law Bill (Amendment No. 92, Structuring Judicial Discretion in Sentencing) 5766-2006 proposes that a committee be set up to establish sentences that will serve as starting points for judges in their sentencing deliberation (starting sentences). The Israeli Minister of Justice asked the authors to propose starting sentences for three prevalent serious offences in order to show the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) the methodology of determining such starting sentences and to help facilitate the debate about the consequences of these new guidelines. The ministers intended the Knesset to legislate these proposed starting sentences in the appendix to the …