Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Courts and Sentencing and Penal Decision Making (Sentencing and Penal Decisionmaking WG)

Jesús Martín Muñoz, Complutense University of Madrid

Justice or Retribution? How Victim-Side Attorneys Shape Criminal Case Outcomes in Russia - Anton Kazun, HSE University (Moscow); Mikhail Belov, UCLA; Vadim Devyatnikov, HSE University (Moscow)

Outsiders in the courtroom: judicial interpreters in criminal courts - Ignacio González Sanchez, University of Girona; Ester Blay Gil, University of Girona

Penal populism and the effectiveness and proportionality of the criminal sanctions system - Sonja Meijer, Radboud University; Jessie Stam, Lecturer and researcher in Criminal Law

“Won’t you please (please) help me?” – Cooperation with authorities in tax fraud criminal cases in Spain - Jesús Martín Muñoz, Complutense University of Madrid