title: Criteria underlying decision making on punishment: Law enforcement practice empirical analysis
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Brester, Aleksandr A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Yurishina, Elena A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-12-18T16:20:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-18T16:20:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Brester, Aleksandr A., Yurishina, Elena A. “Criteria underlying decision making on punishment: Law enforcement practice empirical analysis”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 535–553.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu14.2018.406
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15150
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Three aspects of the punishment imposing process are considered in the article, namely the
  legislative regulation, the court practice and the judge’s attitude toward the punishment imposing
  process. The aim of the research is to understand how the judges impose punishment,
  how they choose a certain sanction among different alternatives, which reasons underlie this
  choice and which objects are purposed by judges. In the introduction, the authors put the
  research question which concerns the grounds underlying the decision making on punishment
  and the duty to justify this decision in the sentence according to the Supreme Court
  of the Russian Federation legal position. The research part consists of the empirical analysis
  which includes two parts. The first part is based on the sociological method of interview. The
  interviewing of practicing judges allows to understand and to analysе the logic of punishment
  imposing process. The second part includes the comparison of judges’ answers given during
  the interview with the reasoning stated in the sentences delivered by those judges. It allows
  drawing the conclusion that there is a gap in the legal regulation of the punishment imposing
  process. One the one hand, the criteria, the courts rely on while making a decision on punishment,
  are non-legal, and the legislation lacks the legal ones. On the other hand, the procedure
  of criminal sanction determination lacks clear legal regulation. The authors underline that
  the procedural part of decision making on punishment requires scientific investigation and
  should be developed by legal scholars. The conclusions of the research can constitute a basis
  for a range of further researches encompassing different human sciences and give impetus
  to the improvement of the procedural aspect of punishment imposing process and the law
  enforcement practice.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Article prepared with the financial support of the grant of the President of the Russian Federation
  № МД-721.2018.6.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 9; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: purposes of punishment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the imposition of punishment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: individualization of punishment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: proof
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personal characteristics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reasoning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Criteria underlying decision making on punishment: Law enforcement practice empirical analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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