TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent computer evaluation of offender's previous record
AU - Schild, Uri J.
AU - Kannai, Ruth
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This paper describes a decision support system to be used by a judge about to pass sentence in a criminal case. The system deals with the problem of how to evaluate the offender's previous criminal record.The system may be used as a stand-alone system, but may also be integrated as a component of a general sentencing support system, e.g. a statistical sentencing information system.The system is a knowledge-based system. The knowledge base (in rule-form) was created primarily by eliciting knowledge from experts (judges, lawyers, academics and probation officers), but also by using statutory law, case law and legal authorities.It is flexible in the sense, that a user can introduce his own preferences (expressed as numerical coefficients) and he1 can thereby apply different sentencing principles.The prototype is at present undergoing testing by some of the participating judges.
AB - This paper describes a decision support system to be used by a judge about to pass sentence in a criminal case. The system deals with the problem of how to evaluate the offender's previous criminal record.The system may be used as a stand-alone system, but may also be integrated as a component of a general sentencing support system, e.g. a statistical sentencing information system.The system is a knowledge-based system. The knowledge base (in rule-form) was created primarily by eliciting knowledge from experts (judges, lawyers, academics and probation officers), but also by using statutory law, case law and legal authorities.It is flexible in the sense, that a user can introduce his own preferences (expressed as numerical coefficients) and he1 can thereby apply different sentencing principles.The prototype is at present undergoing testing by some of the participating judges.
KW - criminal sentencing
KW - decision support systems
KW - previous criminal record
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957819678&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1047788.1047831
DO - 10.1145/1047788.1047831
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AN - SCOPUS:77957819678
SN - 1581137478
SN - 9781581137477
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
SP - 185
EP - 194
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
T2 - 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03
Y2 - 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003
ER -
