Fair sentencing

公平量刑

• 批准号: 438827360
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Elisa Marie Hoven
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/438827360?language=en
• 关键词: Fair; sentencing

The project starts from the premise that sentencing law and practice in Germany is beset by several problems: a lack of clear statutory regulation of sentencing standards, an ensuing problem of unequal sentencing practices in different regions, and an alienation of segments of the population from sentencing practice as reported in the media. The goal of the project is to gauge the size and some causes of these problems. For that purpose, several empirical studies will be conducted: with regard to the application of sentencing standards and their review on appeal, we will perform a thorough analysis of samples of first-instance judgments from various German courts with regard to the reasons cited for the sentences; a review of appeals court judgments dealing with sentencing issues, analyzing the reasons for which sentencing decisions are overturned on appeal (Revision); and group discussions with criminal court judges on sentencing in two hypothetical cases. By studying decisions from geographically separate courts, we will be able to study the size of regional differences in sentencing severity. In order to gauge the difference in sentencing attitudes between professional Judges and lay persons, eight case vignettes are presented online to large samples of both groups, with variations as to potentially relevant factors such as gender, nationality, and harm caused by the offense. Through evaluating the differences between both groups, we aim at identifying the quantity and factors of differences with regard to sentencing.

该项目的前提是，德国的量刑法律和实践受到几个问题的困扰：缺乏对量刑标准的明确法律规定，随之而来的不同地区量刑实践不平等的问题，以及媒体报道的部分人口与量刑实践的疏远。该项目的目标是衡量这些问题的规模和一些原因。为此目的，将进行若干实证研究：关于量刑标准的适用及其对上诉的审查，我们将就判决理由对德国各法院一审判决样本进行透彻分析；对涉及量刑问题的上诉法院判决进行审查，分析上诉时量刑决定被推翻的原因(修订本)；与刑事法院法官就两个假设性案件的量刑进行小组讨论。通过研究不同地区法院的判决，我们将能够研究量刑严重程度的地区差异。为了衡量专业法官和非专业法官在量刑态度上的差异，在网上向两组的大样本展示了八个案件插曲，其中包括性别、国籍和犯罪造成的伤害等潜在相关因素的差异。通过评估两组之间的差异，我们的目的是确定量刑差异的数量和因素。