Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 reflects which principle of…
By fixing a mandatory minimum term of ten or twenty years' imprisonment for penetrative sexual assault, section 4 is aimed at discouraging the offence through the certainty…
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Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 reflects which principle of criminal jurisprudence?
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By fixing a mandatory minimum term of ten or twenty years' imprisonment for penetrative sexual assault, section 4 is aimed at discouraging the offence through the certainty of severe punishment, reflecting deterrent rather than reformative or preventive theory.