Graeme Brown Criminal Law Books sku-55860105 Hardcover

Criminal Sentencing as Practical Wisdom is a hardcover book by Graeme Brown in Criminal Law Books, sku-55860105. Drawing on interviews with Scottish judges and a review of sentencing scholarship, it examines judicial discretion and whether consistency in sentencing is achievable or desirable. It also compares UK, Irish and Commonwealth sentencing jurisprudence.

The book develops a theory of sentencing that brings together equity as particularised justice, Aristotle's phronesis or practical wisdom, value pluralism and appellate courts' use of instinctive synthesis. It argues that judges synthesize the facts and circumstances of each case through concrete, intuitive, case-orientated decision-making.