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THE PRINCIPLES OF SENTENCE REDUCTION ESCAPING PUNISHMENT OR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glsr.2023(VIII-III).05      10.31703/glsr.2023(VIII-III).05      Published : Sep 2023

The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?

Abstract

    Law has impacts on victims and criminals. It is important to analyze its effects and consequences. The research focuses on the principles of sentence reduction in the white-collar crime of cheating public at large collected and organized through study of appeal cases. Often, the convicted appeals for a reduction in sentence.This research aims to highlight those grounds which make the grant or refusal of appeals legally justified, formulate the principles of reduction and analyze their positive and negative effects on the victims and the offenders. It is upon the individual how, according to the circumstance before sight, he implements the derived principles and reaches his individually special conclusion. This research is basically a confined document related to the principle of granting and refusing the reduction in the sentence of criminals for cheating the public at large.

    White Collar Crime, Principle of Sentence Reduction, Cheating Public at large

    (1) Muhammad Tahir
    Professor, School of Law, University of Karachi , Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
    (2) Aeman Khan
    Lecturer, Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
    (3) Zainab Effendi Haqqi
    Assistant Professor., Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Tahir, M., Khan, A., & Haqqi, Z. E. (2023). The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?. Global Legal Studies Review, VIII(III), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/glsr.2023(VIII-III).05

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Tahir, Muhammad, Aeman Khan, and Zainab Effendi Haqqi. 2023. "The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?." Global Legal Studies Review, VIII (III): 37-44 doi: 10.31703/glsr.2023(VIII-III).05

HARVARD

    HARVARD : TAHIR, M., KHAN, A. & HAQQI, Z. E. 2023. The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?. Global Legal Studies Review, VIII, 37-44.

MHRA

    MHRA : Tahir, Muhammad, Aeman Khan, and Zainab Effendi Haqqi. 2023. "The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?." Global Legal Studies Review, VIII: 37-44

MLA

    MLA : Tahir, Muhammad, Aeman Khan, and Zainab Effendi Haqqi. "The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?." Global Legal Studies Review, VIII.III (2023): 37-44 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Tahir, Muhammad, Khan, Aeman, and Haqqi, Zainab Effendi (2023), "The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?", Global Legal Studies Review, VIII (III), 37-44

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Tahir, Muhammad, Aeman Khan, and Zainab Effendi Haqqi. "The Principles of Sentence Reduction: Escaping Punishment or Administration of Justice?." Global Legal Studies Review VIII, no. III (2023): 37-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/glsr.2023(VIII-III).05