Sentencing Commonwealth drug offenders / Pierrette Mizzi, Zeinab Baghizadeh, Patrizia Poletti.

Sydney : Judicial Commission of N.S.W., c2014.

85648

Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia.

Drug abuse and crime -- Australia.

Drug abuse -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

In a federation of States and Territories, it is essential for the punishment of Commonwealth offenders that like cases are dealt with in a like manner so far as possible through the consistent application of sentencing principles. This study discusses this issue in the context of the serious drug offences in Pt 9.1 of the Criminal Code (Cth) and presents a national empirical picture of the sentencing patterns for these offences which relate to the importation and possession of border controlled drugs, plant and precursors and, since 6 December 2005, to the trafficking, selling or manufacture of controlled drugs, plants and precursors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780731356300

ix, 127 p. : ill. ; 30 cm