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Individualisation at sentencing: the effects of guidelines and "preferred" numbers

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Evaluates, using data from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, concerns that UK sentencing guidelines undermine the principle of individualisation at sentence. Details the methodology of the study and its findings on the threats to individualisation posed by the requirement that judges pass a limited range of sentences for a particular category of offence and by the courts' preference for certain sentence lengths over others, known as penal clustering.

Source: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

Authors: J.V. Roberts, José Pina-Sánchez, Ian D. Marder

Institutions: University of Oxford, University of Leeds, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Language: English

Topic: Criminal Justice and Penology

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2796033207