Ebook: Les Misérables on sentencing : Valjean, Fantine, Javert and the Bishop debate the principles
Author: Gilles Renaud
- Tags: Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Canada, Punishment -- Canada, Law in literature, Crime in literature, Hugo Victor -- 1802-1885 -- Misérables, Misérables (Hugo Victor), Punishment, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Canada, Sentencing, Sentencing factors
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Sandstone Academic Press
- City: Melbourne, Canada.
- Language: English
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Victor Hugo's immortal novel Les Mis rables is regarded universally as one of the greatest indictments of injustice ever drawn. Indeed, the main character Jean Valjean represents the best known example of an offender who has been punished unfairly and without regard to the mitigating circumstances that led to his crime, that of stealing bread with which to feed his family. The other characters are also closely Read more...