Conference on sentencing: a call for papers

23/07/2007

The National Judicial College of Australia and the ANU College of Law are jointly presenting a conference on sentencing in Canberra from Friday 8 February to Sunday 10 February 2008. Papers are sought which address the following general themes:

• sentence indication
• discounting sentences
• suspended sentences
• indefinite detention
• Crown appeals against sentence and double jeopardy
• national consistency in sentencing
• sentencing in magistrate courts
• Indigenous offenders and customary law
• human rights charters and sentencing
• offenders perspectives
• bias - hidden or unconscious bias in sentencing
• juries - a role in sentencing?
• community orders
• particular offenders (mental illness, intellectual disabilities, children)

The aim is to�build on the success of a multidisciplinary conference on sentencing in February 2006 attended by over 300 participants, including 70 members of the judiciary.

The 2008 conference will be of interest to people with an interest in sentencing and its aftermath. This includes the judiciary, legal practitioners, health and welfare professionals involved in court proceedings, academics, media representatives , community representatives, corrective services officers and the public generally.

If you would like to be a contributor then please send� an expression of interest by 27 July 2007 by e-mail to Cindy Penrose at�cpenrose@nswbar.asn.au

Please indicate a proposed topic or topics.

23 July 2007