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Lost in court: What you hear when you don’t understand a word
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...
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: The map and the territory
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,...
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,...
A sentencing analogy for emergence
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...
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...
Italy’s new femicide offence: When sentencing becomes an easy substitute for understanding violence
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...
The Sentrix workshop on sentencing architecture successfully concluded
The three-day Sentrix Workshop on Sentencing Architecture, held from 12 to 14 November, concluded today in Bled, Slovenia, bringing together scholars and researchers to rethink how sentencing is understood. Set against the calm backdrop of Lake Bled, the workshop...
Legal decision-making architecture
The article, written by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar, discusses the architecture of choice as a concept that is increasingly important in legal decision-making. Although behavioral economics research has long been based primarily on the decision-making of...
Digital gimmicks and dark patterns –how technology exploits our behavioral weaknesses
The article, written by Manja Skočir, analyses the phenomenon of digital gimmicks and dark patterns as one of the key ways in which modern technologies exploit users’ cognitive vulnerabilities. The theoretical framework of behavioural economics – in particular, the...
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...
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