Sentencing by Parole Board: An Evaluation

Federal Parole and Federal Sentencing: A Report on the Present and Some Thoughts for the Future

Summary. Sentencing law and sentencing decision making

The initial context of this research – judicial cooperation with regard to consistency in sentencing This dissertation is part of a research project in which the phenomenon of judicial cooperation in several areas of the law has been taken as a starting point. The concept of judicial cooperation describes informal structures and products thereof of judicial policymaking for the purpose of the s...

Implementation and Evaluation of PAROLE PoS in a National Context

We are annotating the complete 20 million Dutch PAROLE corpus with PoS and lemma. The morphosyntactic tagging of 250,000 words during the PAROLE project was the first confrontation of the fine-grained Dutch PAROLE tagset and its ’functional’ mode of application, with real corpus data. The correction of the manual tagging and the compilation of a 100,000 words training corpus for the automatic t...

The guilty mind and criminal sentencing: integrating legal and empirical inquiry as illustrated by capital sentencing.

We articulate an interpretation of mens rea that is broader than the traditional special sense but narrower than the traditional general sense. Mens rea in this intermediate sense addresses the guilty mind required by the sentencing criteria for specific criminal sentences for particular offenses. We advance an analytic structure for the integration of legal and empirical inquiry regarding stan...

The influence on judges' sentencing practices of a mental evaluation.

Minimum and Maximum sentences were compared for a sample of 347 prison commitments and for 130 of 347 mental evaluation referrals who finally received prison sentences. It was found that referral for evaluation influenced the probability of remaining in the system until sentencing, but for those sentenced, did not influence the sentence imposed. However, the findings of the evaluation did show ...