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8 - Multiple offenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Andrew Ashworth
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University of Oxford
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This chapter, like Chapter 6, deals with some of the problems posed by the sentencing of persistent offenders. Its focus, however, is on offenders who come before the courts in a different context. In Chapter 6 the main concern was with the sentencing of recidivists – those who offend repeatedly, despite the fact that they have experienced criminal sanctions. The main concern here is with offenders who commit a number of offences before they are detected and convicted, so that the court has to sentence them on one occasion for several offences. Not all the offenders whom the courts have to sentence for several crimes could be described as ‘persistent offenders’, for in some cases the offender has been involved in a single incident which gives rise to a number of charges and convictions. But many ‘multiple offenders’, whom the courts have to sentence for more than one offence, are people who have been committing offences over a period of weeks, months or even years before they appear in court, and they then face a number of charges. The criminal record of such multiple offenders may vary: some of them will be recidivists too, having experienced a number of criminal sanctions in the past, whilst others will fall into that seemingly incongruous category of ‘persistent first offenders’ – those who, when they are convicted for the first time, are convicted of several offences which show that they are accustomed to lawbreaking, if not to the criminal process.

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Print publication year: 2005

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  • Multiple offenders
  • Andrew Ashworth, University of Oxford
  • Book: Sentencing and Criminal Justice
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051965.009
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  • Andrew Ashworth, University of Oxford
  • Book: Sentencing and Criminal Justice
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051965.009
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  • Multiple offenders
  • Andrew Ashworth, University of Oxford
  • Book: Sentencing and Criminal Justice
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051965.009
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