What is the Value of Judicial Experience? Exploring Judge Trajectories Using Longitudinal Data
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07418825.2022.2051585" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07418825.2022.2051585</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2022.2051585" target="_blank" >10.1080/07418825.2022.2051585</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What is the Value of Judicial Experience? Exploring Judge Trajectories Using Longitudinal Data
Original language description
Judicial experience is considered essential for the proper functioning of the sentencing system. We investigate how it influences judicial decisions and its role in reducing sentencing disparity. To do so, we analyze all Czech criminal decisions imposed in 2007–2017 using data that includes judge identifiers. This unique feature of our data enables us to measure judges’ experience directly, as the number of criminal cases processed, and to assess patterns in between-judge disparities longitudinally over the course of judges’ careers. We find that experienced judges impose more prison sentences, decide fewer cases via shortened procedure and find fewer defendants guilty. In addition, as judges become more experienced, between-judge disparities reduce across all the outcomes considered. Experience is thus an instrumental factor affecting judicial decisions throughout the criminal process, and one that contributes to greater consistency.
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
<a href="/en/project/GA19-15077S" target="_blank" >GA19-15077S: Sentencing disparities in the post-communist continental legal systems</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Justice Quarterly
ISSN
0741-8825
e-ISSN
1745-9109
Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
211-240
UT code for WoS article
000782691900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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