Gangs-Legislation-Amendment-Bill-Escalating-Penalties_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.2 MB]
...power. 10. In response to Police’s briefing, we provided you with an aide-memoire indicating Justice’s support for the status quo penalty framework in the Bill, noting that: 10.1. evidence indicates that increased penalties generally have a negligible deterrent effect on offenders (with few offenders understanding the penalty levels associated with the crimes they commit);1 and 10.2. repeat offending amounts to an aggravating factor at sentencing, which will practically tend t...