Application Excercise 4o

1. Watch the case studies of each offender – Richard, Terri, Dane and Peter.
2. Crime committed by each offender:

• Richard – culpable driving
• Terri – trafficking in a drug of dependence
• Dane – intentionally causing serious injury
• Peter – burglary

4. Factors a judge needs to consider when sentencing each offender:

• maximum penalty and current sentencing practices
• nature and gravity of the offence
• offender’s responsibility and culpability, and previous character
• aggravating and mitigating factors
• if the offence was motivated by hatred or prejudice
• impact of the offence on any victim
• plea of guilty

5. Students record the questions they would ask the accused, defence lawyer and prosecutor.
6. Students indicate their judgement for each case, explaining why.
7. Students select a sentence (sanction) that they think best fits the crime committed by each offender, explaining why.
8. Students select how long they think the sentence should be for each offender, explaining why.
9. Judge’s sentence (sanction and how long):

• Richard – 20 years imprisonment
• Terri – 15 years imprisonment
• Dane – 20 years imprisonment
• Peter – 2 years imprisonment

11. For each offender students compare their sentence (sanction and how long) with the judge’s sentence (sanction and how long), indicating whether their sentence was the same or different as the actual judge in each case.

12. Students view and record how other users of this website sentenced each offender in the four cases by clicking on the relevant link.