RT Article
T1 On penal metrics
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 4
IS 3
SP 225
OP 245
A1 Tremblay, Pierre
LA English
YR 1988
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764278704
AB This paper presents the results of a public survey on the perceived severity of different kinds and levels of penalties gathered using magnitude estimation techniques. Three topics are dealt with. Individual scales of sentence severity are shown to be internally consistent. Then the structural properties of the severity scales of fine, imprisonment, community work, and probation are analyzed. Finally, what a given penalty is worth in relation to other types of punishment from the public's point of view is established and compared to existing exchange rates prescribed in legal statutues or practiced by criminal courts.
K1 seriousness of crimes
K1 Public Opinion
K1 Sentencing
K1 psychophysical scaling
DO 10.1007/BF01072451