Framework of Judicial Sentencing - A Study in Legal Decision Making

Zusammenfassung An analysis of multiple-offender sentencing combining rare insight into judicial thinking derived from experienced judges 'think aloud' records with a rule-based and numerical model of decision-making. A solution is offered to the problem of proportionality between offence seriousness and punishment severity in multiple offence cases. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Judicial decision making and sentencing policy: continuation of a study; 2. A sentencing decision model: single and multiple similar counts; 3. A sentencing decision model: multiple disparate counts; 4. Testing the decision model for multiple disparate counts; 5. The techniques of data collection; 6. Judges' thoughts on sentencing the multiple offender; 7. An alternative sentencing decision model for the multiple offender; 8. Validity and development of the alternative decision model: the data collection; 9. Towards a requisite decision model for sentencing the multiple offender; 10. The armature of judicial sentencing; Appendix: Case 37 from Sentencing Research Exercise - Part 3B; References; Index.

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• Authors: Austin Lovegrove, Austin (University of Melbourne) Lovegrove
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032568
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03256-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law