MITIGATING AND AGGRAVATING FACTORS

Question 1

What is an Aggravating Factor

Answer 1

Those that make the offence more serious andreprehensible thus warranting a harsher punishment

Question 2

What Is a mitigating factor

Answer 2

Those that tend to lessen the blamewortheyness of the defendant or the gravity of the offense

Question 3

Examples of Aggravating Factors

Answer 3

• Prior criminal record or history of violence
• lack of remorse or indifference to the harm caused
• Commision of the offence while on probation or parole
• Vulnerability or particluary defenselessness of the victim
• pre-medetationor planning involved in the offense
• Hate crime motivations based on race, religion, ethnicity etc