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Who are repeat offenders?

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Who are repeat offenders?

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7. Some misapprehension may have been caused by our adoption of the Sentencing Advisory Panel’s definition of a standard burglary which included a reference to a repeat offender. The Panel recognised that no definition is wholly appropriate. Although the Court adopted the Panel’s definition of a standard burglary, it was made clear that sentencing courts should always take account of an offender’s previous convictions. The Court was not limiting this to repeated offences of burglary as has been suggested. This is absolutely clear because the Court emphasised at the outset of the judgment that, in applying the guidance, it was necessary to have regard “to the particular circumstances of the offence, its effect upon the victim and the record of the offender, not only in other cases of domestic burglary, but generally” ( paragraph 5). The Court also stated that “in the case of burglary … the offender’s criminal record is … of more particular significance. In judging the record it is of co

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