There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[1^] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[2^], and protection of the community.
Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it’s not a bullshit reason.
[1^]: I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list.
[2^]: I don’t know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson’s case mentioned it as one of his factors.
Edit ah fuck. I can’t figure out this syntax. Whatever, it’s clear enough what I meant.
edit again: ah. It turns out I had the syntax right the first time, before I tried editing. But I was doing it on my phone, and Jerboa doesn’t display it like lemmy-ui does.
There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[1^] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[2^], and protection of the community.
Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it’s not a bullshit reason.
[1^]: I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list. [2^]: I don’t know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson’s case mentioned it as one of his factors.
Edit ah fuck. I can’t figure out this syntax. Whatever, it’s clear enough what I meant.
edit again: ah. It turns out I had the syntax right the first time, before I tried editing. But I was doing it on my phone, and Jerboa doesn’t display it like lemmy-ui does.
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There are 4 factors that a judge needs to consider.[1] Punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, denunciation[2], and protection of the community.
Probability to reoffend is relevant to rehabilitation and deterrence. So no, it’s not a bullshit reason.
I Victoria. I assume Queensland has a very similar list. ↩︎
I don’t know exactly what this is, only that the judge in Erin Patterson’s case mentioned it as one of his factors. ↩︎