The framework of judicial sentencing

Description:

Examines the sentencing of offenders appearing on multiple offences and how judges having fixed a prison sentence for each offence, determines an overall sentence for each offender. Offers a model of judicial sentencing in the form of a decision strategy comprising working rules deduced from the given responses of judges as they attempt to apply sentencing law and a numerical guideline in the form of an algebraic model quantifying the application of the working rules.

subjects: Sentences (Criminal procedure),  Judicial discretion,  Decision making,  Entscheidungsprozess,  Strafurteil,  Strafprocesrecht,  Sentences (Procédure pénale),  Straftoemeting,  Décision, prise de,  Pouvoir discrétionnaire des juges

Places: Great Britain