The use of IT and AI to support sentencing decisions in order to make them more consistent, deserves a lot of attention nowadays. Criticism towards the use of IT and AI for this sentencing purpose is often directed at the resulting standardization that tends to overlook individualized sentencing. In this paper we describe the current situation of computerization in the domain of criminal justice.
Current practice is evaluated and future developments are addressed.
We argue that information management and electronic versions of case files could help in providing especially the judge with more relevant information. The Digital Library is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.