Welcome to the European Group on Sentencing and Penal Decision-MakingConferences & Seminars

'Admissions of Guilt: Pleading, Presenting, Performing', European Seminar, Glasgow 22-23 June 2023

Call for Participation

Programme

Abstracts

Cultures of Sentencing; European Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 30-31st May 2019

Conference Programme

List of Delegates

'European Symposium on Individualisation' 19-20 April 2018

Please see the Programme & Attendees and Abstracts

Papers/Slides

Nicole Bögelein 

Mojca M. Plesničar

Cyrus Tata

Mihaela Vidaicu

Hilde Wermink

'European Conference on Use of Imprisonment' 8-9 June 2017

Papers/Slides

David Hayes  

Hucklesby and Maguire

Jessica Jacobson

Jose Cid

Peter Conlong - Why is the prison population still rising?

Peter Conlong - Prison population trends since 2011

Vivian Geiran

Mitigation in the Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making Process , Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016  

The Role of Emotion in the Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making Process, Universitat Pompeu Frabra, Barcelona, 21-22 May 2015

See the Call for Participation, and the Programme

Inter-Professional Dynamics in the Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making Process, University of Reims, France 15-16 May 2014

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The Nature and Contours of Trust in Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making, Dublin, Ireland 2013 

Towards a European Sentencing Identity? 19-20 April, 2012, hosted by Prof Grazia Mannozzi, Università dell'insubria,  Como, Italy

'Researching the Judicial Role in European Sentencing: Interactions and Dynamics', was hosted in 2011 by Prof Julian Roberts at Oxford University, England.

ESC Stream on Sentencing and Penal-Decision Making

 As you may know the ESC is hosting its annual conference in Budapest 4-7thSeptembehttp://www.eurocrim2013.com/index.php.  

As part of this, our European group on Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making will once again run  a consecutive stream of panels on Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making.

If you would like to present a paper as part of the Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making stream could you send me your title and abstract (in accordance with the ESC’s character rule) before the end of Tuesday 21st May.

European Working Group on Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making: Third SymposiumThursday 18th- Friday 19th April – Dublin, Republic of Ireland  

The 2013 Symposium was kindly hosted by Tom O’Malley (NUI Galway) and Niamh Maguire (WIT Waterford) in Dublin City Centre.

On Thursday the venue was the Criminal Courts of Justice Building, Parkgate Street, Dublin.  Estella Baker gave a talk on the role of the EU in Sentencing. This was chaired by Tom O'Malley and attended by lawyers and members of the judiciary. 

On Friday the Symposium Venue was the glorious King’s Inn where we had the exclusive use of the seminar room there.     

You can find some of the presentations from the symposium in our Publications section.