INDIVIDUALISATION AS A PROCESS Individualisation in the Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making Process, Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making European Working Group Leiden, Netherlands, 19-20 April 2018 Mojca M. Plesničar
The principle of individualisation vs. The process of individualisation
Three phases of individualisation 1 - legislative 2 - judicial 3 -administrative individualised sentence
The legislative phase inherently political Setting the ground rules WHO? Legislature / parliament Governmental bodies KEY QUESTIONS (What?) Why? How? How much? inherently political
The judicial phase Applying rules to individual cases + so much more Qualitative Quantitive WHO? Judges Prosecutors? Counsel? Experts? Others?
The administrative phase shaping individual experience with punishment WHO? Prisons Probation services
Interactions & more legislative administrative judicial society?