The Stringency of Sentencing Policy (SSP) Index: Introducing A New Tool to Assess the Relative Severity of National Criminal Sentencing Legislation

• In Event: Crime, Justice, and Police

Brief Overview

In this paper, I introduce and test the novel Stringency of Sentencing Policy
(SSP) Index, a new tool that measures relative national criminal sentencing
policy severity without conflating this with the severity of sentencing
outcomes.

Author

• Lily Rice, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin