Sentencing disparities in the Czech Republic: Empirical evidence from post-communist Europe
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=LoTNPM4d.S" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=LoTNPM4d.S</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370818773612" target="_blank" >10.1177/1477370818773612</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Sentencing disparities in the Czech Republic: Empirical evidence from post-communist Europe
Original language description
Although there is an extensive literature on sentencing disparities in common law countries, there have been only a few empirical studies in continental countries and virtually none in post-communist ones. This article presents findings from the Czech Republic, which show that there are important disparities in post-communist Europe, comparable to those in the USA before the introduction of sentencing guidelines. I employ a multi-level modelling approach to study the sentencing practices in Czech district courts for the three most common offences. The values of intra-cluster correlation are found to be between .066 and .178 for the various models, which is considered high. The specifics of civil law post-communist countries are further discussed in relation to choosing appropriate ways of reducing disparities.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Criminology
ISSN
1477-3708
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
151-174
UT code for WoS article
000513452800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85047383664