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Sentencing in the Netherlands : taking risk-related offender characteristics into account /
In criminal proceedings, the sentencing decision of the judge might be the most important decision, not only because of the impact the punishment has on the offender, but also because the sentencing decision is a cornerstone of the legitimacy of the entire criminal justice system. Nonetheless, there...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Den Haag :
Eleven International Publishing,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Meijersreeks ;
MI 234. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Table of contents; Detailed table of contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 THE DAILY BUSINESS OF SENTENCING; 1.2 PRIOR RESEARCH; 1.3 THE RELEVANCE OF SENTENCING RESEARCH; 1.4 SHIFTING SENTENCING GOALS: TOWARDS ACTUARIAL JUSTICE?; 1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS; 1.6 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EXISTING SENTENCING LITERATURE; 1.7 OUTLINE OF THIS BOOK; 1.8 REFERENCES; 2 Offender's personal circumstances andpunishment; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 UNDERSTANDING SENTENCING IN THE NETHERLANDS: JUDGES' DISCRETIONARYPOWERS; 2.3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND PRIOR RESEARCH
- 2.3.1 A new direction for focal concerns theory2.3.2 Demographic differences in sentencing and their origins; 2.3.3 Theoretical expectations; 2.4 DATA AND METHOD; 2.4.1 Dataset; 2.4.2 Dependent variables; 2.4.3 Independent variables; 2.4.4 Methods; 2.5 RESULTS; 2.5.1 Descriptive analyses; 2.5.2 Offender characteristics; 2.5.3 Offender's personal circumstances; 2.5.4 Change in effects of offender characteristics when personal circumstancesare included; 2.6 DISCUSSION; 2.7 CONCLUSION; 2.8 REFERENCES; 3 Pre-sentence reports and punishment; 3.1 INTRODUCTION
- 3.2 FROM PENAL WELFARISM TO ACTUARIAL JUSTICE: CHANGING TASKS OFPROBATION AGENCIES3.3 PRE-SENTENCE REPORTS IN THE NETHERLANDS; 3.4 RISK-BASED PRE-SENTENCE REPORTS: FRAMING THE PERSON OF THEOFFENDER; 3.5 DATA AND METHOD; 3.5.1 Quasi-natural experiment; 3.5.2 Dataset; 3.5.3 Matching procedure; 3.5.4 Balancing tests; 3.5.5 Analytic approach; 3.6 RESULTS; 3.6.1 Type of punishment; 3.6.2 Sentence length; 3.7 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; 3.8 REFERENCES; 4 'Does he deserve another chance? Or have we had it with him?'; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE ROLE OF THE RISK OF RECIDIVISM IN SENTENCING IN THEORY
- 4.3 PRIOR RESEARCH4.4 THE ROLE OF THE RISK OF RECIDIVISM ACCORDING TO THE JUDGES; 4.4.1 Estimates of the role of the risk of recidivism; 4.4.2 Influence of the risk of recidivism on sentencing; 4.4.3 In pursuit of hope for the offender; 4.4.4 Continuing the sentencing trend; 4.5 CONCLUSION; 4.6 REFERENCES; 5 Sentencing homicide offenders in the Netherlands; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE NETHERLANDS; 5.3 RESEARCH ON HOMICIDE SENTENCING; 5.4 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HOMICIDE SENTENCING; 5.5 THEORETICAL EXPECTATIONS; 5.6 DATA AND METHOD
- 5.6.1 Dependent variables5.6.2 Independent variables; 5.7 RESULTS; 5.7.1 Descriptive analyses; 5.7.2 Multivariate analyses
- main effects; 5.7.3 Multivariate analyses
- interaction effects; 5.7.4 Explained variance; 5.8 DISCUSSION; 5.9 CONCLUSION; 5.10 REFERENCES; 6 There's more to sentencing than imprisonment; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 EARLIER SENTENCING STUDIES; 6.3 METHOD; 6.4 DATA; 6.5 RESULTS; 6.5.1 Sentencing effects of offender characteristics on incarceration and othersanctions; 6.5.2 Sentencing effects of offender characteristics