| 英文摘要 |
Based on 104 most serious homicide cases between 2004 to 2014, this paper explores what extra-legal factors affect judges’ sentencing decision in Taiwan. Our findings indicate, beside crime characteristics and defendant behavior before and after the criminal act, that other factors such as locality of the criminal act, victims’ gender and age, all have significant effect on sentencing outcome. While multiple victims remains one deciding factor on sentencing, homicides committed in urban area, to female, and to victims under age of 18 or over age of 70 are more likely to receive death penalty as compared to life sentence. |
