Understanding Judges' Choices of Sentence Types As Interpretative Work: An Explorative Study in a Dutch Police Court
This article critically evaluates the prevailing factor-oriented (e.g. a priori defined legal and extralegal characteristics of defendants) approach in analyses of judicial decision-making. Rather than assuming such factors, we aim to demonstrate how Dutch judges engage in interpretative work to arrive at various sentence types. In their interpretative work, judges attempt to weigh and compare various legal and extralegal features of defendants. Importantly, they do so in the context of the case as a whole, which means that these features do not have independent or fixed meanings. Judges selec... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | Judicial decision-making / sentencing type / (ir)redeemability / whole case approach |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28626662 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/97980 |