Convicted criminals won’t be able to use references from family and friends to get more lenient sentences in NSW, but more widespread change could be hard.
- Senior Research Fellow Bond University/ Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences, CQUniversity Australia
If you’re convicted of sexual abuse, your friends and family can tell the court how good you are, with the hope of a more lenient sentence. There are calls for this to change.
Sexual assault trials can compound a victim/survivors trauma, drag on for years and bring them face to face with their attacker. Is having dedicated sexual assault courts the answer?
Evangelical Christian churches say a man’s authority is in God’s plan.
