RT Article
T1 Timing is everything: the role of contextual and terrorism-specific factors in the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders
JF European journal of criminology
VO 14
IS 3
SP 269
OP 289
A1 Amirault, Joanna
A2 Bouchard, Martin
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1578462967
AB The punishment of terrorist offenders remains a relatively unexplored topic. Research is especially needed in the United Kingdom in light of the continued criminalization of terrorism-specific offences and the July 2005 bombings. Using a sample of terrorist offenders convicted in the United Kingdom (n = 156), the current study examines the impact of legislative and incident-based contextual factors on sentencing outcomes. The findings indicate that changing contextual environments significantly affect sentencing outcomes, and that the effects of being adjudicated at different time points have unique implications for offenders motivated by an Islamic extremist ideology. Further, evidence of a temporal effect is uncovered, and the potential of a lingering 9/11 effect is addressed.
K1 Legislative responses
K1 Sentencing
K1 9/11
K1 Temporal effect
K1 Terrorism
DO 10.1177/1477370815578194