This index provides a topic-based guide to the commentary in the ‘Principles & Practice’ component of the database. To navigate to a topic beginning with a particular letter, click on the relevant A-Z link below. The number in brackets indicates the number of pages on the database which are relevant to that topic. To view those pages, click on the topic.
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A
- Administrative Detention (1)
- Age (6)
- Aggregate Sentences (1)
- Alcohol Addiction (3)
- Alcohol Treatment Order (1)
- Ancillary Sentences (1)
- Antecedents (3)
- Assistance (1)
- Attendance Centre Order (1)
B
- Breach of Trust (2)
- Breastfeeding Mothers (1)
- Burden of Proof (2)
C
- Character (3)
- Child (2)
- Child Exploitation (5)
- Clean Street Time (1)
- Commencement of Sentences (2)
- Community Based Order (1)
- Community Correction Order (1)
- Community Custody Order (1)
- Community Service (1)
- Compensation (2)
- Concurrent Sentences (6)
- Condition - breach of (2)
- Condition - invalid (1)
- Condition - of a bond (2)
- Condition - of licence (1)
- Condition - of parole (1)
- Confession (1)
- Consistency (5)
- Continuing Episode (1)
- Continuing Offences (1)
- Contrition (5)
- Conviction (3)
- Cooperation (4)
- Corporate Offenders (5)
- Corporations (2)
- Costs (2)
- Course of Conduct (3)
- Crushing Sentence (1)
- Culpability (3)
- Cultural Background (3)
- Cultural Practice (5)
- Cumulative Sentences (6)
- Custody - meaning of (1)
- Customary Law (4)
D
- Damage (1)
- Default Imprisonment (1)
- Dependants (1)
- Deportation (3)
- De Simoni principle (1)
- Deterrence - general (6)
- Deterrence - specific (3)
- Disadvantaged Offenders (2)
- Discharge - unconditional (1)
- Discharge - with condition (1)
- Discounts (3)
- Disqualification Orders (1)
- Double Jeopardy (2)
- Double Punishment (2)
- Drug Addiction (3)
- Drug Offences (5)
- Drug Treatment Order (1)
- Duress - non-exculpatory (1)
E
- Early Release (1)
- Elderly Offenders (3)
- Employment - loss of (1)
- Enforcement - of fines (1)
- Entrapment (1)
- Espionage (1)
- Exceptional Circumstances (3)
- Extenuating Circumstances (1)
F
- Federal Jurisdiction (1)
- Financial Circumstances (3)
- Fines (3)
- First Time Offenders (2)
- Fisheries Offences (2)
- Fraud (2)
G
- Gambling Addiction (2)
- Global Sentence (1)
- Good Behaviour (3)
- Guilty Plea (3)
H
- Hard Labour (1)
- Hardship - to dependants (2)
- Hardship - to offender (5)
- Health (3)
- Home Detention Order (1)
- Hospital Order (2)
I
- Immigration Detention (1)
- Imprisonment (6)
- Inchoate Offences (2)
- Indictable Offences (2)
- Indigenous Offenders (2)
- Individualised Justice (1)
- Injury (1)
- Instinctive Synthesis (1)
- Intensive Correction Order (1)
- Intensive Supervision Order (1)
- International Instruments (1)
L
- Leave of Absence (1)
- Leniency (3)
- Licence - release on (2)
- Licence - revocation of (1)
- Licence period - length of (1)
- Licences - loss of (1)
- Loss (2)
M
- Mandatory Minimum (6)
- Maximum Penalty (2)
- Maximum Security (1)
- Mental Condition (10)
- Mental Condition - definition of (1)
- Mercy (3)
- Methodology (1)
- Motive (1)
- Multiple Offences (3)
N
- National Security (1)
- No Conviction (3)
- Non-Parole Period (5)
- Non-parole Period - length of (3)
O
- Objective Seriousness (5)
- One Transaction Rule (3)
- Order - breach of (1)
- Order - cancellation of (1)
- Order - variation of (1)
- Other Offences (0)
- Overseas Sentences (1)
P
- Parole (2)
- Parole - purposes of (1)
- Parole - release on (1)
- Parole - revocation of (1)
- Parole period - length of (1)
- Part IB (1)
- Partly Cumulative Sentences (6)
- Passport - surrender of (1)
- Passports (2)
- Pecuniary Penalty (2)
- People Smuggling (3)
- Periodic Detention (1)
- Physical Condition (2)
- Pre-Release Scheme (1)
- Pre-Sentence Custody (1)
- Premeditation (2)
- Prison - class of (1)
- Prison - location (1)
- Profits From Offence (1)
- Program Probation Order (1)
- Proportionality (4)
- Protection of the Community (2)
- Protective Custody (1)
- Psychiatric Probation Order (2)
- Public Opprobrium (1)
- Public Profile - of offender (2)
- Punishment - inexpediency of inflicting (1)
R
- Recognizance (5)
- Recognizance - breach of (1)
- Recognizance - cancellation of (2)
- Recognizance - variation of (2)
- Recovery - of fines (1)
- Reductions (3)
- Rehabilitation (5)
- Religious Background (1)
- Remain in Australia - order to (1)
- Remissions (2)
- Reparation (5)
- Reparation Orders - enforcement of (1)
- Repeat Offender (4)
- Restitution (2)
- Retribution (1)
- Risk of Reprisal (1)
- Role - of offender (1)
- Role of the Prosecution (1)
S
- Section 16A (2)
- Sedition (1)
- Sentencing Alternatives (1)
- Sentencing Options (3)
- Standard of proof (1)
- State & Territory laws - application of (8)
- Statistics (2)
- Structuring Custodial Sentences (2)
- Structuring Non-Custodial Sentences (1)
- Submissions on Range (1)
- Substance Abuse (1)
- Summary Disposition (1)
- Summary Offences (1)
- Supervision order (1)
- Suspended Sentences (1)
T
- Terrorism (4)
- Totality principle (4)
- Treachery (1)
- Treason (1)
- Trivial Offences (1)
V
- Victim (5)
- Victim Impact Statement (1)
- Voluntary Disclosure (1)
- Vulnerable persons (1)
W
- Weekend Detention (1)
- White-Collar Offences (4)
- Work Order (1)
Y
- Young Offenders (4)