DPP v Bird (a pseudonym) [2025] ACTSC 74
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DPP v Bird (a pseudonym) [2025] ACTSC 74
Project CitationFamily violence offences – Sentencing Judge referred to Bugmy Bar Book chapters
Coram: Christensen AJ
- Sentencing for family violence offences
- Sentencing Judge referred to research from Bugmy Bar Book, Childhood, Infant and Perinatal Exposure to, and Experience of, Domestic and Family Violence to support finding that the enduring impacts of the offender’s exposure to family violence are readily apparent with the cycle of violence being repeated by the next generation – found impact reduced moral culpability but also raised community protection concern: at [37]
- Also referred to Bugmy Bar Book, Impacts of Imprisonment and Remand in Custody in considering impact of imprisonment on young offender – found young age of offender elevates promotion of rehabilitation: at [74]
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