ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Re-Constructing Sentencing: A Multidimensional Study of Judicial Discretion in Continental Europe
Consistent sentencing is a cornerstone of modern rule-of-law criminal justice systems. To enable judges to consider diverse circumstances at sentencing, legal frameworks provide judges with discretion (some countries also supply guidelines to increase consistency). The challenge is to provide judges with the right amount of discretion and guidance. This can be done in various ways, but there has not yet been any comprehensive assessment of these or of the limits they set across continental Europe. Attempts to evaluate the disparity of judicial practices run into the difficulty of identifying comparable cases. Typical sentencing studies consider behaviours to be the same if they fall within…
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