Would you rather be sentenced by a human or a machine?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and in the future its impact on human life will only increase. What role can AI have in sentencing criminal cases? Can AI replace human judges in meting out punishment?

Sigrid van Wingerden and Mojca Plesničar • June 27, 2022 • 1 comment

Punishing foreign national prisoners: deportation instead of resocialisation?

An important aim of imprisonment is to prepare offenders for a successful return into society. But what if a prisoner’s lack of residence rights means he is not supposed to return to society at all?

Jelmer Brouwer • June 01, 2017

To plead or not to plead? Now Finns have to worry about it too

Plea bargaining was introduced in the Finnish criminal procedure in January 2015 to ease the burden on the courts. Considering the current sentencing practice in Finland, how does plea bargaining fit into the mix?

Karola Kolomainen • October 31, 2015

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Would you rather be sentenced by a human or a machine?

Punishing foreign national prisoners: deportation instead of resocialisation?

To plead or not to plead? Now Finns have to worry about it too