Sentencing offenders convicted of child pornography and child abuse material offences / Pierrette Mizzi, Tom Gotsis, Patrizia Poletti.

Sydney : Judicial Commission of New South Wales, 2010.

1st edition

76047

Child pornography -- Government policy -- Australia.

Child sexual abuse -- Government policy -- Australia.

Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia.

One of the more difficult sentencing tasks is to sentence an offender convicted of a child pornography offence. This study examines the practical difficulties faced by judicial officers at sentence relating to the fact-finding process and the problems that can be encountered in assessing the objective seriousness of a given offence. It discusses the following issues the sentencing court must take into account: the tensions involved in reconciling the purposes of sentencing the complexities involved in the fact-finding process uses of scales to assist in assessing the seriousness of the child pornography relevance of the good character or lack of previous convictions of the offender difficulties in applying the totality principle when there are multiple offences correct application of the mitigating and aggravating factors referred to in s 21A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW).

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iv, 52 p.