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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...
Behavioural Economics and Law: How We Decide – in the Mind, in Institutions, and on the Screen
At the 51st Slovenian Lawyers’ Days (Portorož, 16–17 October 2025), a thought-provoking panel focused on Behavioural Economics and Law. The session, chaired by Jaka Cepec, explored how insights from behavioural science – from Kahneman’s dual-system theory to the...
Gaza, genocide and the sentencing environment
Reflecting on the decision-making environment surrounding criminal sentencing in the context of unspeakable crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, which can plausibly be considered a genocide, is both defeatist and hopeful. It is defeatist because...
Welcome to Sentrix: Mapping Sentencing in Motion
The Sentrix webpage is designed to be more than just a project site, it aims to become a hub for people thinking about sentencing: about how it’s done, what shapes it, and what happens when we try to study it. Sentencing is a moment, but also a process; a legal...
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...
First Sentrix Workshop
As part of the ERC Sentrix project, a workshop dedicated to the decision-making architecture in sentencing will be held in Bled from November 12 to 14, 2025. Discussions will focus on the factors that shape the environment in which sentencing decisions take place...
Linguistic ambiguity in court
Researchers from the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar and Manja Skočir, reveal in a podcast that language is both a tool and a weapon in the courtroom. It is a fundamental tool used by lawyers and is crucial in the...
Can artificial intelligence help understand the sentencing environment?
At the Eurocrim conference in Athens, members of the research team presented the first phase of the project, in which they used artificial intelligence to map the research field of sentencing decision-making. How? They used artificial intelligence to create an...
“We have also encountered truly horrific cases, but the court’s sentence did not even reach the upper half of the threatened range of sentences”
In the interview, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar talks about what happens when subjective, anecdotal truths are confirmed by objective data that actually show a milder, even particularly mild, treatment of sexual predators? The interview also raises questions...
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...
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