Talking about sentences & crime: views of people on periodic detention [pdf, 746 KB]
...people on periodic detention ____________________________________________________________________ 2 1.1 Sentencing policy in New Zealand2 There are a number of rationales, goals and principles of sentencing which provide the justifications for imposing legal sanctions, point to the desired effects of particular sentences, and provide guidance as to how to arrive at a principled determination of a sentence. The most often cited rationales and goals of sentencing are retribution; denunciation...