Latvia

The Criminal Law

General Part

Chapter IV
Punishment

Section 35. Punishment and Objective Thereof

(1) Punishment as provided for in the Criminal Law is a compulsory measure which a court, within the limits of this Law, adjudges on behalf of the State against persons guilty of the commission of a criminal offence or in the cases provided for by law, determined by a public prosecutor by drawing up an injunction regarding the punishment.

(2) The objective of punishment is :

1) to protect the public safety ;
2) to restore justice ;
3) to punish the offender for a committed criminal offence ;
4) to resocialize the punished person ;
5) to achieve that the convicted person and other persons comply with the law and refrain from committing criminal offences.

Keywords

Sentencing - national proceedings
Determination of sentence - national proceedings



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