Framework of Judicial Sentencing
Framework of Judicial Sentencing: A Study in Legal Decision Making by Austin Lovegrove
English | 21 Aug. 2008 | ISBN: 0521032563, 0521584272 | 296 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | 21 Aug. 2008 | ISBN: 0521032563, 0521584272 | 296 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
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.