Domestic Violence: Law Reform

I strongly believe that those offenders of domestic abuse and violence should be slammed by the full letter and strength of the law and the legal system. This is because those who undertake these crimes are dangerous, manipulative and deadly people; with the victims left trapped, scared, frightened and petrified forever...

Therefore, I believe an appropriate measure to defeat and eradicate this criminal and immoral behaviour is to introduce key law reform of mandatory sentencing. This would match the recent amendments to one-punch laws (which I covered in an earlier blog post). I firmly stand by this; as I believe that, as mentioned in previous blog posts, I think that the law must always adapt and change to fit the progression of society's views, opinions, moral/ethic standpoints and expectations; otherwise the law would be extremely outdated!

This would combat the variation in the sentences that have been handed out to these offenders recently. People who commit these acts of domestic violence need to have a sentence of general deterrence; that completely matches the utter disdain and disgust the public feels about this issue. This would all be introduced, mainly, in the attempt to discourage and eradicate this behaviour from the community, by sending all offenders to jail (e.g. minimum of 5 years jail for all who are charged with committing domestic violence).

Reference for Text:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-25/dv-offenders-should-face-mandatory-jail-advisor/6803282

Reference for Images:
http://markconner.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ecc070b883301b7c769085f970b-800wi
http://www.tenancywa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1024px-USMC-101026-M-6457M-002-e1397200186825.jpg