Advantages Of Mandatory Sentencing

Mandatory Sentencing

“A mandatory sentence is a court decision setting where judicial discretion is limited by law. Typically, people convicted of certain crimes must be punished with at least a minimum number of years in prison.” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

The difference between normal and mandatory sentencing is the process that this happens in as normal sentencing sets a range of penalties, which allows the judge and the magistrates to see out the sentence according to the circumstances of the offence and the offender. So far Western Australia, NSW and Queensland have Mandatory sentencing but the northern territory has abolished mandatory sentencing.

The NSW government introduced Mandatory sentencing laws as a part of a range
This is a response to the drive by shootings involving bikie gangs in Western Sydney. The Government was considering introducing five year minimum mandatory sentencing for these crimes.

The objectives of this new law of mandatory sentencing for the other new law of one punch offences under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol is to lower the rate of “king hits” or “Coward Punches”. This subject of “coward punches” is being spread around the media and Sydney is getting a bad name for drug and alcohol related offences.

So the Australian government was witnessing all these intoxicated people committing the “coward punch” which was leading to a lot of innocence young people to suffer blunt force trauma to the head and get knocked unconscious, which would lead to the victim to hit their head on the pavement and/or hard surface. This affected them very badly and caused their brain to start swelling and a lot of these “coward punch” would unfortunately die. So the government introduced the mandatory sentencing to target these offences and try to reduce the amount of “coward punch”
1. A proposed new law, or changed law, is discussed in cabinet. Often, people in Australia put pressure on the government to change something. A decision is then made on what to do.
2. If the government decides to proceed, government lawyers are asked to draft a bill. A bill is basically a “first draft” of an act of parliament.
3. Copies of the given to all members of the House of Representatives. The members read the material in their own time. This is known as the “first reading”
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5. The bill is debated again, this time bit by bit. This stage is known as the committee stage, as the debate occurs in parliamentary committees. Changes to the bill may be