by Neza Markelj | Aug 31, 2026 | News, reflections
It is summer. It is hot. Even though research has shown that the warm weather does apparently not affect sentencing outcomes, at least not prison sentences in Prague,[1] one might still get in trouble with the law due to the specific circumstances of this time of the...
by sentrix-admin | Apr 16, 2026 | News, reflections
In March, while on a research visit in Prague, Jakub Drapál was kind enough to take us to court. Luckily, this was literally, not figuratively. Despite studying sentencing for a living, a lot of my understanding is acquired through the mediated lens of court files and...
by sentrix-admin | Apr 9, 2026 | News, reflections
In the Sentrix project, we pursue an ambitious goal: to create a map of sentencing, to sketch a representation of a terrain far more intricate than it first appears. Sentencing is not a tidy territory; it is dense, uneven, and alive. It includes statutory rules,...
by sentrix-admin | Feb 13, 2026 | News, reflections
The other day, during a bit of an introductory chit-chat with our team in one of our weekly meetings, the topic of quantum mechanics came up. It was shortly followed by the phenomenon of emergence in physics and chemistry and other sciences: that a complex system can...
by sentrix-admin | Nov 26, 2025 | News, reflections
A new offence, an old political reflex Italy has adopted a reform transforming femicide into a distinct offence in the penal code, with life imprisonment as the maximum penalty. On paper, it reads like a bold response to a social crisis. In reality, I see an old...
by sentrix-admin | Nov 6, 2025 | events, News, reflections
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...
