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Measuring jurors’ views on sentencing: Results from the second Australian jury sentencing study
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Warner, K and Davis, J and Spiranovic, C and Cockburn, H and Freiberg, A, Measuring jurors' views on sentencing: Results from the second Australian jury sentencing study, Punishment and Society, 19, (2) pp. 180-202. ISSN 1462-4745 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1462474516660697
Abstract
This paper presents the results of the Victorian Jury Sentencing Study which aimed to measure jurors’ views on sentencing. The study asked jurors who had returned a guilty verdict to propose a sentence for the offender, to comment on the sentence given by the judge in their case and to give their opinions on general sentencing levels for different offence types. A total of 987 jurors from 124 criminal trials in the County Court of Victoria participated in this mixed-method and multi-phased study in 2013–2015. The results are based on juror responses to the Stage One and Stage Two surveys and show that the views of judges and jurors are much more closely aligned than mass public opinion surveys would suggest.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | public opinion, punitiveness, sentencing |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Criminology |
| Research Field: | Courts and sentencing |
| Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
| Objective Group: | Justice and the law |
| Objective Field: | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Warner, K (Professor Kate Warner) |
| UTAS Author: | Spiranovic, C (Dr Caroline Spiranovic) |
| UTAS Author: | Cockburn, H (Dr Helen Cockburn) |
| ID Code: | 110611 |
| Year Published: | 2017 (online first 2016) |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 25 |
| Deposited By: | Law |
| Deposited On: | 2016-08-05 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-06-15 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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