Title: The Framework of Judicial Sentencing
First published: 1997
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
LC classification: KD8406 .L68 1997