Justifying Punishment (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Post-Communist Europe
Redaktion: Drápal, Jakub

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation. It determines why reasoning is relevant and provides evidence favouring an increased role for justification.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040307496
• Artikelnr.: 72584076

Autorenporträt

Jakub Drápal is a researcher at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia; an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Czechia; and a MSCA-CZ fellow at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Reasons for (and against) justifying sentences
3. Three Stages of Reason-Giving: Identification, Evaluation and Weighing
4. Sentence justification in first-level courts in post-communist Europe
5. Justifying Sentence Changes at Appellate Courts
6. A Review of Sentence Justification: The case of the Netherlands
7. Towards proper sentence justification