Representations of knowledge and discretionary decision-making by decision-support systems : The case of judicial sentencing

This article critically examines approaches to the production of systems of support for discretionary legal decision-making. It discusses a project to research and develop a Sentencing Information System for the High Court in Scotland and examines the wider theoretical implications of work to produce a system to support discretionary decision-making. Briefly placing the Scottish development in the context of world-wide themes in sentencing...