Do Irish Judges have too much discretion in sentencing criminal offenders?

Academic Paper from the year 2014 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 61, , course: Corporate Law, language: English, abstract: The aspirations of this essay will be to examine the discretion which Irish judges seem to have when sentencing criminal offenders, and to also examine what diversifications could be made to curtail their exercising of this discretion. To do this accurately I will make a parallel comparison with similar jurisdiction s such as England and Wales but will also compare it to jurisdictions not so similar such as the US and Australia.