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dc.contributor.authorTerblanche, S S
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-16T13:27:43Z
dc.date.available2018-04-16T13:27:43Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-05
dc.identifier.citationPotchefstroom electronic law journal (PELJ) = Potchefstroomse elektoniese regsblad (PER), 20: [http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.html]en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/26725
dc.description.abstractThis contribution considers the Constitutional Court of South Africa’s judgments regarding aspects of sentencing. It starts with an overview of relevant judgments, before attending in more detail to judgments on the minimum sentences legislation and on sentencing when it affects children. On this foundation, the article then discusses the human rights that are affected by the imposition of sentences on offenders, before attempting to identify what the next instalment of Constitutional Court judgments might bring to the sentencing table. This article offers a collection and collation of judgments that share one common element, namely that they have something to say about an aspect of sentencing. The value of such an approach is that it provides the first step to answering the following question: The Constitutional Court has been active for 20 years; what do we learn about sentencing from its judgments during this time?en_US
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dc.subjectSentencingen_US
dc.subjectcriminal sentences in South Africaen_US
dc.subjectcruelen_US
dc.subjectinhuman or degrading punishmenten_US
dc.subjectdignity and sentencingen_US
dc.subjectConstitutional Courten_US
dc.titleTwenty Years of Constitutional Court Judgments: What Lessons are there about Sentencing?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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