The framework of judicial sentencing
Subtitle: a study in legal decision making
By: Austin Lovegrove.
Series: Cambridge criminology series
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Great Britain -- Decision making.; Judicial discretion -- Great Britain.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and index.