Knowledge-based systems and legal applications
Knowledge-based systems and legal applications
What computers still can't do: a critique of artificial reason
What computers still can't do: a critique of artificial reason
Decision support for sentencing in a common law jurisdiction
ICAIL '95 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
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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.