Research Catalog

Title

The framework of judicial sentencing : a study in legal decision making / Austin Lovegrove.

Author

Lovegrove, Austin.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Description

xiii, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Cambridge criminology series

Uniform Title

Cambridge criminology series.

Subject

• Judicial discretion > Great Britain
• Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Great Britain > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Judicial decision making and sentencing policy: continuation of a study -- 2. A sentencing decision model: single and multiple similar counts -- 3. A sentencing decision model: multiple disparate counts -- 4. Testing the decision model for multiple disparate counts -- 5. The techniques of data collection -- 6. Judges' thoughts on sentencing the multiple offender -- 7. An alternative sentencing decision model for the multiple offender -- 8. Validity and development of the alternative decision model: the data collection -- 9. Towards a requisite decision model for sentencing the multiple offender -- 10. The armature of judicial sentencing -- App. 1. Case 37 from Sentencing Research Exercise -- Part 3B.

ISBN

0521584272 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^96036778^

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Harvard Library