Research offers no evidence to support tougher sentencing
Published 15 October 2024 Tougher sentencing – a measure put in place when it is already too late, argue Tova Bennet and Sverker Jönsson, researchers in Criminal Law at Lund University. (Photo: Mostphoto/Michael Erhardsson) Despite harsher sentences and increased resources for the criminal justice system, research shows nothing to indicate that this leads to reduced criminality. “We wanted to prob
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/research-offers-no-evidence-support-tougher-sentencing - 2025-03-12