Arguments Against Mandatory Sentencing

1.0 Introduction
The introduction should provide a context for your report. Introductions typically outline why a topic is of interest or why it needs to be investigated. In this instance, media reports, academic literature, or case law will be useful for explaining what mandatory sentencing is and what it is designed to achieve. Your introduction should clearly outline why mandatory sentencing is a topic relevant to the Western Australian judiciary, and the community more broadly.
Your introduction should also outline the purpose and objectives of the report, the broad structure of the report and what the reader will gain from the report.

Mandatory Sentencing was introduced into Western Australia in the 1996…. A mandatory sentence is the …show more content…
You should make clear what this type of sentencing is designed to address and what it is designed to achieve. This section provides background and a common understanding between writer and reader regarding mandatory sentencing and the reasons legislators would introduce it and consequently, reduce judicial discretion. Here, it will likely be useful to reference relevant academic literature, media reports and/or relevant legal cases (found using Lexis Nexus or FirstPoint) that were influential in prompting parliament to …show more content…
291) and approximately $200,000 to build a new cell. However this economic factor was overruled by the social factors where the community pleaded that mandatory sentencing keeps these dangerous offenders off the streets which in turn keeps the community safe. Australia abolished the death penalty in 1984 which was a political factor which influenced the new punishment for murder, mandatory life imprisonment. The legal case of Kieran Loveridge was influential in promoting parliament to legislate. In ----- Loveridge was on appeal for a six year jail sentence with four years parol for an unprovoked attack which resulted in the death of a teenager. The public were outraged at this sentence which saw the NSW government respond with drafting legislation to put in place mandatory minimum sentencing. This Bill was passed in --- which meant the court could not give an offender guilty of assault which results in death of the victim a lesser punishment than eight years

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