Narratives Of Mitigation: Sentencing Indigenous Criminal Defendants In South Australia's Higher ...

Narratives Of Mitigation: Sentencing Indigenous Criminal Defendants In South Australia's Higher Courts Samantha Jeffries, and Christine E.W. Bond, 2010 In their statistical analyses of higher court sentencing in South Australia, Jeffries and Bond (2009) found evidence that Indigenous offenders were treated more leniently than non-Indigenous offenders, when they appeared before the court under similar numerical circumstances. Using a sample of narratives for criminal defendants convicted...

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