RT Article
T1 Custodial decision making in a magistrates' court
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 35
IS 2
SP 201
OP 217
A1 Rumgay, Judith
LA English
YR 1995
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/163965643X
AB This article explores the relative contributions to sentencing decision making of a stable court culture and immediate situational factors intervening in particular cases. An empirical study of a magistrates' court which showed a generally parsimonious use of custody reveals that this pattern was generally sustained by important characteristics of the approach to decision making within the court itself and of magistrates' views on the nature of their task. However, immediate situational factors intervening in particular cases appeared to disrupt the general decision making process, provoking decisions to impose custody. The implications for modifying sentencing decision making are explored
K1 England
K1 Freiheitsstrafe
K1 Strafzumessung
K1 Gerichte