| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 208 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Forms of life sentence -- Discretionary life sentences -- Mandatory life sentences -- Detention at Her Majesty's pleasure or for a specified period -- Custody for life -- 'Automatic' life sentences -- Life sentences: in custody and approaching release -- Some statistics -- Serving a life sentence -- Release under the Criminal Justice Act 1967 -- View from Europe -- European Court of Human Rights -- Case of Weeks -- Case of Thynne, Wilson and Gunnell v. United Kingdom -- Wynne: murders are different -- Cases of Hussain and Singh -- Parliamentary and governmental responses -- Criminal Justice Bill 1990 -- Bill in the House of Commons -- House of Lords -- Back in the Commons: the government reacts -- Back to the House of Lords -- Drafting the regulations -- Crime (Sentences) Act 1997: extending the procedure -- DLPs in practice -- Preparing for the DLP -- Dossier -- DLP in practice -- Decisions and outcomes -- Key issues -- Release procedures compared -- Determinate sentences -- Release of mandatory lifers -- Mental Health Review Tribunals -- Spirit of Weeks/Thynne and the reality -- Judicial function -- What is a court? -- Independence of the Parole Board -- The 'court' must follow appropriate procedures -- Recent developments in judicial review -- Theory and practice -- Back to basics -- Developments elsewhere in the United Kingdom -- Does the DLP pass the test? -- Lessons for the future -- Extracts from the majority and dissenting opinions in Weeks. |
| Summary |
This is a study of the workings of the Discretionary Lifer Panels of the Parole Board, the body charged with the responsibility for making decisions on the release of discretionary life sentence prisoners. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Parole Board for England and Wales -- Decision making.
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Great Britain. Parole Board for England and Wales. |
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Decision making. |
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Parole Board. -- Decision making. |
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Life imprisonment -- England.
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Life imprisonment. |
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England. |
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Parole -- England.
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Parole. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- England.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Life imprisonment -- Wales.
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Wales. |
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Parole -- Wales.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Wales.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Padfield, Nicola. Beyond the tariff. Cullompton : Willan, 2002 1903240883 (DLC) 2003266436 (OCoLC)49594982 |
| ISBN |
9781134031436 (electronic book) |
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1134031432 (electronic book) |
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9781843924234 (electronic book) |
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1843924234 (electronic book) |
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1903240883 |
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9781903240885 |
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