Minimums help the judges not only to decide the punishment, also to see in advance which crime is worse than the other crime. Maximums could maybe help in a similar way.
Maximums are needed when stark punishments exist, like torture, death penalty or removing of body parts. These can be limited to specific crimes then.
I would expect that judges have a fine moral compass for which crimes are worse than others. Better if they don’t need to follow some administration’s counterscientific “tough on crime” whim
You make a compelling case for maximums though. I hadn’t thought of it as being a way to reduce torture or death penalty in the countries where that’s on the table in the first place
Minimums help the judges not only to decide the punishment, also to see in advance which crime is worse than the other crime. Maximums could maybe help in a similar way.
Maximums are needed when stark punishments exist, like torture, death penalty or removing of body parts. These can be limited to specific crimes then.
I would expect that judges have a fine moral compass for which crimes are worse than others. Better if they don’t need to follow some administration’s counterscientific “tough on crime” whim
You make a compelling case for maximums though. I hadn’t thought of it as being a way to reduce torture or death penalty in the countries where that’s on the table in the first place