Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

[Im-a-Ridah]

How much time in prison should be given for each of the following offences?

1. Unoccupied residential burglary
2. Occupied residential burglary
3. Burglary of a business out of hours
4. Robbery of a business in hours
5. Street robbery
6. Assault by an individual
7. Group assault
8. Murder

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Burglary and robbery of any kind, minimum 5 years.

Assaults is a tricky one as it ranges from a push upwards.

Murder, life.

[ScaredyCat]

Execution for all of them. Except where the victim was a motorcyclist, then just a "tis ok, but don't do it again.."
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[Ste]

Imagine if five years actually meant five years!

[-Matt-]

How long is a piece of string? What are the circumstances?

John murders Bob - after Bob brutally and inexplicably murders John's wife without any reason/excuse, then goes on to avoid any sort of justice due to police investigations being useless, lets say. This is only highlighted during John's trial. Does John deserve the same sentence as Bob now? Even if its a minimum sentence?

And does that mean much either way if "worse" cases often get the same minimum sentences anyway because the justice systems bulging at the seams?

[Derivative]

Feels pretty circumstantial to me too, probably for the best that I'm not a judge.

Ransacking a house and ruining everything, taking heirlooms etc, vs going for the car keys off the rack, for example.

Also robbing a corner shop and ruining the owner's livelihood, vs. taking a monitor from a multinational's office.

Another thing is that most sentences are aimed at being deterrents, but they don't really work because people don't think they'll be caught. If I'm five times likely to be caught committing a 5 year offence, is that equivalent to murder? I doubt it's seen that way.

If we could have good (say 50%+) enforcement of theft I don't think it'd merit prison time at all. If my bike gets stolen, I'd be happy with a replacement plus costs and some sort of nominal punishment, the problem is that as we know bike thieves are barely ever caught.

[RhynoCZ]

I think the law system, British or Czech, does not matter, is set alright.

As you might know, I have got the master's degree at law. So, I do realise not every crime is the same. Demanding life sentence or even death penalty for murder is a bit short sighted. In many cases of murder there's no prior consideration and/or deliberation (planning). There's also a very thin line between murder and manslaughter. A planned murder sure should have worse punishment, don't you think?

You can't just send people to prison willy nilly. That would be Communism.
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[Polarbear]

[Suntan Sid]

[Hetzer]

Harm caused to a person, motivation of the perp.

Some stranger burgles a person's house because he wants dollar, minimum 10 years with a max 20% off for good behaviour.

Some guy beats some other guy to death for raping his daughter, £10 fine.

Now try to quantify every possible combination of harm/motivation and pretend the majority of judges could get their heads around it. Lol.
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[jjdugen]

Here's a can of worms for you to inspect.
The prison system is overloaded, mostly with low level criminals offending to feed a drug habit or drifting into petty larceny from poverty (perceived or not).
So. The majority of such cases before the bench get suspended or minimal sentencing. With little or no support, the cycle repeats.
This leads to the inevitable diminution of respect for the law both by perp and victim.
My solution is this. Put them to work, but proper work. It won't be pleasant, street sweeping, land reclamation, parks and landscaping, heavy, dirty, but a real contribution to the social fabric. Its win win.
We get clean cities, they get to payback and, just maybe, some form of satisfaction that might just feed back into their future behavior.
Councils are cash strapped in just these areas, so I don't envisage much protest from our public servants.
Now, how to control such an unruly bunch out in society.
Micro chip them on entry into the system. Location to be monitored at all times. There is nothing, technically to stop having a device that renders the subject immobile if they miss-behave.
It would be an answer, but do we want to go down that road?
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[Rogerborg]

[The Artist]

We should have some sort of system where someone judges the situation to determine how long is necessary.

[Rogerborg]

[Polarbear]

Put them all on a nice island somewhere. That one full of Anthrax sounds a good choice. Tell them it's up to them how they survive.
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[Pjay]

1. Unoccupied residential burglary = 3-5yrs.
2. Occupied residential burglary = 5-7yrs.
3. Burglary of a business out of hours = 3-5yrs.
4. Robbery of a business in hours = 5-10yrs unarmed, 7-15yrs Armed.
5. Street robbery = 5-7yrs.
6. Assault by an individual = 3-10yrs.
7. Group assault = 5-15yrs.
8. Murder = Life, no parole, no release.

[Diggs]

Nobody mentioned castration as part of any punishment. Now, I'm not usually an advocate of social engineering but as a society we would all benefit from stopping the blood-line of persistent offending scroat families... Doing the same to the likes of Philip Green wouldn't cause me a problem either..
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[Itchy]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Still, I've seen the decrepit old fuckers advocating such menial work should be completed in exchange for dole money.
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[RhynoCZ]