The Framework of Judicial Sentencing

A Study in Legal Decision Making

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ID19918390
AuthorsAustin Lovegrove (The University of Melbourne, corresponding author)
Year1997
Publication date1997-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueFramework of Judicial Sentencing (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511520969
OpenAlexW1584317064
ISBN9780511520969
Open LibraryOL34440286M
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Austin Lovegrove examines the sentencing of offenders appearing on multiple offences and how judges, having fixed a prison sentence for each offence, determine an overall sentence for each offender. Analysing judges' verbal protocols for sentencing problems and sentences for fictitious cases, he is able to offer, first, a model of judicial sentencing in the form of a decision strategy comprising working rules deduced from the given responses of judges as they attempted to apply sentencing law, and, second, a numerical guideline in the form of an algebraic model quantifying the application of the working rules. On the basis of this empirical data, Dr Lovegrove furthers understanding of the nature and place of intuition in sentencing and of how the cumulation of sentence can be integrated into a system of proportionality related to the seriousness of single offences

Criminology · Judicial opinion · Political science · Sentence · Sentencing guidelines · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Decision making · Entscheidungsprozess · Great britain · Judicial discretion · Pouvoir discrétionnaire des juges · Sentences (criminal procedure) · Sentences (Procedure penale) · Strafprocesrecht · Straftoemeting · Strafurteil · Artificial Intelligence

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