Consistency in sentencing: a dream or reality?

It is necessary to come to a common idea about the gravity of the offence in order to make the Belgian legal criminal system less irrational. There is also a large scale of modalities of punishment. Meanwhile, there is a world of difference between judgments in similar cases. As far as the sentencing system is concerned, there is a crying need for more consistency and less irrationality. The project aims at studying this evolution and at formulating concrete proposals.

Keywords:SENTENCING, CONSISTENCY, CRIMINAL LAW

Disciplines:Law, Other law and legal studies