Sentencing decisions around quantity thresholds: theory and experiment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11220/24:10473768
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-023-09568-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-023-09568-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09568-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11292-023-09568-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Sentencing decisions around quantity thresholds: theory and experiment
Original language description
Objectives: We study the effects of quantity thresholds (such as drug amount) used to divide offenses into subsections on sentencing decisions by professional sentencers. Methods: In a vignette experiment, 200 Czech prosecutors recommended a length of prison sentence in drug possession and theft cases. Results: We provide experimental evidence that quantity thresholds increase the recommended average prison sentence by 10 to 55%. We develop a conceptual framework that decomposes the effect of quantity thresholds into two opposing effects: the severity and the reference effects. We provide suggestive evidence for the existence of severity and reference effects. Using new parametric measures of ordinal (in)justice, we further quantify the effect of thresholds on the probability of an ordinally just sentence for a given level of tolerance. Conclusions: Quantity thresholds, designed to limit sentencing disparities, introduce a different source of disparity which might substantially limit the net benefits of such provisions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50502 - Criminology, penology
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
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Experimental Criminology
ISSN
1573-3750
e-ISSN
1572-8315
Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
45
Pages from-to
1323-1367
UT code for WoS article
001025597600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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