Sentencing Factors (VCE SSCE Legal Studies): Flashcards

Circumstances increasing offender's culpability/blameworthiness

Circumstances decreasing offender's culpability/sentence severity

NOT an aggravating factor (but remorse can mitigate)

Violence/weapons, premeditation, victim vulnerability

Genuine remorse, no prior record, rehabilitation efforts

Mitigating factors pull lighter, aggravating pull heavier

Earlier the plea, greater the reduction in sentence

Saves court resources, spares victims trauma

Document detailing injury/loss/damage suffered by victim

Can request it be read aloud in court (by them or another)