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Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand the Sentencing Environment
At the Eurocrim conference in Athens, Sentrix research team presented the first phase of the project, in which they used artificial intelligence to map the field of sentencing research. How? Using artificial intelligence, they created an interactive map that brings...
Presentation of the Sentrix project at the ESELS conference in Toulouse
At the annual conference of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS), held in Toulouse in June 2025, Dr. Mojca Plesničar and Dr. Dean Lipovac presented the first stage of the Sentrix project – a comprehensive and methodologically innovative literature...
The use of the concept of culture in sentencing research
In early June, researchers from the Institute of Criminology, Dr. Miha Marčenko, Lovrena Jeromelj and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar attended the European seminar The Role of Culture in Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making, which took place at the Faculty of...
Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar appointed ERC ambassador: “Sometimes, the most important step is simply allowing ourselves to believe – and to try.”
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced its ambassadors, among which Assoc. Prof. and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar, has been selected as Slovenian ERC Ambassador.The ERC Ambassador network will work...
Researcher Dr Mojca M. Plesničar receives prestigious ERC grant
The Sentrix project introduces a new approach based on decision architecture to investigate a complex social and legal question: how do judges make sentencing decisions? The research will focus on mapping the “sentencing environment,” which includes both...
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