Individualisation at sentencing: the effects of guidelines and "preferred" numbers

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Evaluates, using data from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, concerns that UK sentencing guidelines undermine the principle of individualisation at sentence. Details the methodology of the study and its findings on the threats to individualisation posed by the requirement that judges pass a limited range of sentences for a particular category of offence and by the courts' preference for certain sentence lengths over others, known as penal clustering.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Roberts, JV Pina Sanchez, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-6022 Marder, I
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2018 Sweet & Maxwell and its Contributors. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article published in Criminal Law Review following peer review. The definitive published version, Roberts, J, Pina Sanchez, J and Marder, I (2018) Individualisation at Sentencing: The Effects of Guidelines and “Preferred” Numbers. Criminal Law Review, 2. pp. 123-136 is available online on Westlaw UK.
Keywords:	Psychology and law; Sentencing; Sentencing guidelines
Dates:	Published: January 2018 Accepted: 15 November 2017
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2018 12:30
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2019 15:12
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126053

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