The Empirical Study of Sentencing Imbalance in the Case of Taking Bribes with Extremely Huge Amount
Large amount,huge amount and extremely huge amount decide the criteria for imposing penalty in the crime of taking bribes.According to the empirical study of 1088 court verdicts involving bribery of extremely huge amount,the imbalance in sentences can be found in forms of underpunishment or improper term of imprisonment in accordance with the bribery amount.In the case of extremely huge amount,circumstances for leniency and severe punishment are inappropriately used.For leniency is abused and undermines the criteria for penalty,the root cause of the imbalance is the negligence of bribery amount and failure of severe punishment.Therefore,the compound penalty pattern of"bribery amount+sentencing circumstances"should be considered in the case of extremely huge amount.In other words,the bribery amount should decide the minimum penalty to perform the effect of severe punishment.The scale of extremely huge amount should be further specified to identify the relevant minimum penalty.The circumstances of severe punishment should be interpreted,and the circumstances of leniency be classified to regulate their application.
crime of accepting bribesextremely huge amountsentencing imbalanceempirical study
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