Paper's abstract

Pierre Catala, Data Processing and the Analysis of Trials
The computerised study of trials naturally finds its bedrock in the analysis of judgements, which means in the same material as juridical databanks. However the documentary corpus is here constituted otherwise: it includes all the decisions pronounced in a particular matter, in a given period, by a given court (if possible, of the first degree). Each data contained in each case is compiled and treated by computer, according to the usual processes of statistics. The interpretation of the results may be able to bring substantial understanding about the population and the behaviour of those who are judged, as well as that of those who judge.

Key Words : data processing, trial
t. 39, 1994 : p. 249-257

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