It's a fact we have two sentencing guidelines with a strict age limit of 18.
Obviously there has to be an age where the sentencing changes,.
The alternative is a formula that starts at the low end at a low end and ends up
at 25 years for the high end.
The problem is , politicians who depend upon a knee jerk support of a tough on
crime approach, do society a disservice by removing from Judges their ability to
customize a sentence that is appropriate for the guilty person under the
circumstances.
It begs the question as to why judges are treated with such mistrust and
disrespect?
The answer is because society regards judges as a result of the behaviour of a
few, the underbelly, the psychopaths like Allan Sheffield and Denis Power who
get to be judges and spend their careers leaving endless trails of destruction
not to mention destruction and ill-repute the the judiciary and the legal
profession.
David Bagshaw is what is called "damaged goods", his odds of becoming normal is
entirely remote, his probability of reoffending is almost guaranteed as is
Melissa Todorovic but being female, its amazing that we are not yet hearing how
she is was the victim. Just wait till her parole comes around and she does a
Karla Homolka on us.
Society treats mental health issues as a taboo, it is a 100 billion dollar
mistake that generates most crime, most civil, family and criminal litigation
which has a fair chance of ending up in front of a judge who was NEVER screened
for personality or mental health problems and who makes decisions that have
nothing to do with law or what is expected from an impartial objective tribunal.
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