This Conference follows on from the Sentencing: Principles, Perspectives & Possibilities conference (2006) and the Confidence in the Courts conference (2007). It seeks to continue the discourse on a range of sentencing issues, including:

• national consistency in sentencing
• sentencing in magistrate courts
• sentence indication
• discounting sentences, suspended sentences, indefinite detention
• Crown appeals against sentence
• Indigenous offenders & customary law
• judicial descretion v legislative sentences
• sentencing for environmental offences
• juries -- a role in sentencing?
• particular offenders -- mental illness, intellectual disabilities, children

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Judges and magistrates
Academics in areas of criminal law, sentencing, restorative justice, psychology and law, psychiatry and law, therapeutic jurisprudence
Criminal lawyers: prosecutors, legal aid, private defence counsel (solicitors & barristers)
Public servants involved in policy development
Corrective service management and professional services
Health & welfare professionals
Victim support and community groups
Media representatives

PROGRAM
Program

REGISTRATION
• Earlybird rate $450 (pay by 21Dec07)
• Individual rate $550
• Academic & NGO rate $300
• Student rate $120
• 10% discount for 4 or more registrations
REGISTRATION FORM

ACCOMMODATION & VENUE
For information about the conference venue and accommodation options in Canberra, go to
ACCOMMODATION

INQUIRIES
Contact conference organisers at:
E: sentencing@law.anu.edu.au
T:  02 6125 6655 or 02 6125 2906
F:  02 6125 6651