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Although rules of law and administrative guidelines were developed during past centuries, a complete understanding of the criminal justice system must take into account the actual options available to the judge (Ebbesen & Konečni, 1982; Krahé, 1985). Most of the rules of law contain only general guidelines for decisions which have to be applied according to the principle of discretion and thus leave enough room for extralegal factors.
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Bierhoff, H.W., Buck, E., Klein, R. (1989). Attractiveness and Respectability of the Offender as Factors in the Evaluation of Criminal Cases. In: Wegener, H., Lösel, F., Haisch, J. (eds) Criminal Behavior and the Justice System. Research in Criminology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86017-1_13
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