... vulnerable people. I will be using many academic articles throughout this paper to give empirical support to the overall argument. History and Development A mandatory sentence is a fixed sanction prescribed by Parliament for committing certain crimes. A mandatory sentence can basically involve any type of sentence, but generally it deals with a mandatory prison sentence of a particular length. In some cases, people ... who, in the absence of a mandatory minimum sentence, would not have received a prison sentence. (Roche, 1999). Mandatory minimum sentences (MMS) of imprisonment have bee...

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