Events
In this section, you can explore meetings, conferences, online gatherings, and all the other different events organised by the Sentrix team.
Events
The Sentrix Workshop: Rethinking What and How We Know Sentencing
In November 2025, sentencing scholars from across Europe and beyond will gather by the shores of Lake Bled for something slightly different: a workshop that is part conversation, part experiment, and part reflection on how we know what we know. The Sentrix Workshop is...
Tuesday Meeting: Digitalized Descriptions of Criminal Behaviours Contained in Court Verdicts and Their Use in Sentencing Research: Vast Opportunities (and some dangers)
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Jakub Drapal entitled “Digitalized Descriptions of Criminal Behaviours Contained in Court Verdicts and Their Use in Sentencing Research: Vast Opportunities (and some dangers)”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings...
Tuesday Meeting: »AI for assisting judicial decision-making: challenges and opportunities«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Brian Barry entitled “AI for assisting judicial decision-making: challenges and opportunities”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at 15.00pm in the library of the Institute of...
Tuesday Meeting: »Pre-trial detention in Chile: Between Time Management and Standardisation«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Javier Velásquez entitled “Pre-trial detention in Chile: Between Time Management and Standardisation”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Monday, 10 November 2025, at 11.00 a.m. in the library of the Institute...
How Prosecutors Shape Sentencing: Lecture by Alena McClure
At this week’s Tuesday Meeting, visiting scholar Alena McClure from Charles University in Prague delivered an outstanding lecture titled “Negotiating Authority: Prosecutors’ Perceptions of the Supervisory Role in Sentencing Decisions.”Her talk explored how prosecutors...
Sentencing Forum
- 4 Feb: Innovation in sentencing research
- 4 Mar: Sentencing guidelines in comparative perspective
- 15 Apr: Talking to judges
- 27 May: Shadowing sentencing work
The Third Sentencing Forum is just around the corner
You are welcome to join us at our third forum, Talking to Sentencers, which will take place on Wednesday, 15 April from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET. Talking to Sentencers explores interviews and focus groups as ways of studying sentencing through the accounts of judges and...
Sentencing guidelines across jurisdictions: a reflection on design, discretion, and misunderstanding
Last week’s sentencing forum brought together Julian Roberts, Johannes Kaspar and Sigrid van Wingerden, three speakers from England and Wales, Germany, and the Netherlands, respectively, to discuss sentencing guidelines across different jurisdictions. What made the...
Join us on our second Sentencing Forum
You are welcome to join us at our second forum, which will take place on Wednesday, 4 March from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET. This session will explore sentencing guidelines across jurisdictions, focusing on their design, use, and effects on judicial discretion,...
Sentencing Forum, a new meeting point that strengthens connections across the sentencing research community
What is the Sentencing Forum? The Sentencing Forum is a new online meeting space designed to complement the existing academic structures in the sentencing field. We have conferences, workshops, working groups, and project-based collaborations, but we rarely have...
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