Publications

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Tata C (2019) Sentencing as a Social Process: Re-Thinking Research, Policy and Practice (Palgrave, Macmillan)
  • Tata, C (2019) ‘ “Ritual Individualization”: Creative Genius in Sentencing, Mitigation and Conviction’ The Journal of Law & Society, Volume 46 (1) in press.
  • Tata, C  (2019) ‘To Plead or Not to Plead? Guilt is the Question. Re-Thinking Plea Decision-Making in Anglo-American Countries‘ (with J Gormley) in C Spohn and P Brennan (eds) Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century, the ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing’s Handbook on Corrections and Sentencing, Volume 4 (Taylor Francis)
  • Tata, C (2018) ‘Reducing Prison Sentencing: Why the Quasi-Market Logic of “Selling Alternatives to Custody” Fails‘ (11,000 words) Howard Journal of Crime & Justice Vol 57 No 4 pp 472-494
  • (2017) ‘Just Emotions? The Need for Emotionally-Intelligent Justice Policy’ with F Jamieson Scottish Justice Matters Vol 5
  • Tata C (2016) Sentencing and Plea Bargaining : Guilty Pleas Versus Trial Verdicts (with J. Gormely) ed M Tonry Oxford Handbooks Online: Criminology & Criminal Justice Oxford, 2016.
  • Tata, C (2016) ‘How Can Prison Sentencing be Reduced?‘ Scottish Justice Matters Vol 4(1)
  • Tata, C (2016) ‘Sentencing and Release from Prison: the End of ‘Automatic Early Release‘ Scottish Justice Matters
  • Tata, C (2015) ‘Sentencing and Penal Policy in the “New Scotland”: Consultation on Extending the Presumption against Short Custodial Sentences‘ Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice December
  • Tata, C. (2015) ‘Sentencing and Rehabilitation’ Scottish Legal News Blog 6 Oct 2015
  • Tata, C. (2015) ‘Sentencing and the Allure of Imprisonment: Why Rehabilitation Should Not be a Ground for Custodial Sentencing‘ Scottish Justice Matters
  • Tata,C, 2014, ‘The Struggle for Sentencing Reform: will the English Guidelines Model Spread?: Will the English Guidelines Model Spread?‘ in A Ashworth and J Roberts (eds), Sentencing Guidelines, Oxford University Press pp236-256
  • Tata, C (2013) Evaluation of Reforms to Summary Legal Assistance and Disclosure of Prosecution Evidence with P. Bradshaw, et al (2012) Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.
  • Tata, C (2013) ‘Sentencing, Welfare and Justice: what can and do pre-sentence reports achieve in sentencing’ Ryukoku Corrections and Rehabiliation Center Journal (Japan) No 3 2186-8018 
  • Tata, C (2012) ‘Beyond the Revolving Court Door: Is it Time for Problem-Solving Courts in Scotland?‘ Scottish Justice Matters 1(1)
  • Tata, C (2011) ‘The Failure of Early Release & Recall to Prison: Front-Door,  Back-Door and Revolving Door Sentencing’ with E. Weaver, et al European Journal of Probation
  • Tata C (2011) ‘Sentencing and penal practices:Is Scotland losing its distinctiveness?’ in Croall et al(eds) Criminal Justice in Scotland Willan 195-216
  • Tata, C (2011) ‘Les rapports présentenciels et leur réception par les juridictions pénales’ (with McNeill, S. Halliday, N. Hutton,) Actualite Juridique Penal 395-401
  • Tata, C and D. Thomson (2011) ‘Sentencing and Release from Prison: Will the Custodial Sentences and Weapons Act come into Force?’ SCOLAG March 53-80
  • Tata, C (2010) ‘A Sense of Justice: the Role of Pre-Sentence Reports in the Production and Disruption of Guilt & Guilty Pleas’ Punishment & Society 12(3):239-261
  • C. Tata (2010) ‘A Sentencing Exception? Changing Sentencing Policy in Scotland’ USA Federal Sentencing Reporter 22(4): 272-279 with N. Hutton
  • C. Tata (2009) ‘Reconfiguration and Hysteresis: Narratives of Risk and Responsibility in Pre-Sentence Reports’ with F.McNeill et al Punishment & Society 11(4): 419-442
  • C. Tata, et al (2008) ‘Assisting and Advising the Sentencing Decision Process: the Pursuit of ‘Quality’ in Pre-Sentence Reports’ The British Journal of Criminology 48: 835 –855
  • C. Tata (2008) ‘Street-Level Bureaucracy, Inter-Professional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: a study of Criminal Justice Social Work in the Sentencing Process’ with S.Halliday Law & Policy Vol.31 No.4 pp 405-428
  • C. Tata and F.Stephen (2008) ‘Incentives, Criminal Defence, & Plea Bargaining’ International Review of Law & Economics Vol28(3): 212-219
  • C. Tata (2008) ‘Shadow-Writing and Participant Observation: a Study of Criminal Justice Social Work and Sentencing’ with S.Halliday et al Journal of Law & Society 35(2) 189-213
  • C. Tata (2007) ‘In the Interests of Commerce or Clients? Supply, Demand, ‘Ethical Indeterminacy’ in Criminal Defence Work’ Journal of Law & Society 38: 489-519
  • C. Tata and F. Stephen (2007) ‘When Paying the Piper gets the ‘Wrong’ Tune: the Impact of Fixed Payments on Case Management, Case Trajectories, and ‘Quality’ in Criminal Defence Work’ in P. Pleasence, et al (eds) Transforming Lives: Law and Social Processes Legal Services Research
  • C. Tata (2007) ‘Sentencing as Craftwork and the Binary Epistemologies of the Discretionary Decision Process’ Social & Legal Studies 16(3) 425-447.
  • C. Tata and F. Stephen (2007) ‘When Paying the Piper gets the ‘Wrong’ Tune: the Impact of Fixed Payments on Case Management, Case Trajectories, and ‘Quality’ in Criminal Defence Work’ in P. Pleasence, A. Buck, N.Balmer (eds) Transforming Lives: Law and Social Processes Legal Services Research Centre/ TSO pp 186-213 ISBN: 9780117021464
  • Tata, S. Halliday, N.Hutton, F.McNeill (2007) ‘To inform and advise? The Interpretation and Use of Pre-Sentencing Reports in the Sentencing Process’ International Society for the reform of the Criminal Law http://www.isrcl.org 21 pages
  • Tata (2007) ‘Clear as Mud? Custodial Sentences Feature’ Journal of the Law Society of Scotland Vol 52 No 1 pp18-19
  • Tata (2007) ‘Crime and Punishment’ Holyrood: the business of politics Issue 162 pp50-51
  • Tata (2007) ‘The End to ‘Dishonesty’ in Sentencing?’ Criminal Justice Scotland http://www.cjscotland.org.uk Article March 2007, 5pages.
  • Tata and F. Stephen (2006) ‘Fixed Payments: a real impact?’ Journal of the Law Society of Scotland Vol 51 No 12 pp 10-14
  • C. Tata and F. Stephen (2006) ‘ “Swings and Roundabouts”: Do Changes to the Structure of Legal Aid Remuneration Make a Real Difference to Criminal Case Management and Case Outcomes?’ Criminal Law Review 722-741
  • Tata (2006) ‘New Sentencing Act lost in a fog of contradiction’ The Scotsman Law Page article
  • Tata ‘Towards a Strategy to Shore-Up Judicial Independence: Recent Experience from Scotland’ International Society for the reform of the Criminal Law  18 pages
  • C. Tata et al (2004) ‘Does Mode of Delivery Make a Difference to Criminal Case Outcomes and Clients’ Satisfaction: The Public Defence Solicitor Experiment’ Criminal Law Review pp 120-136
  • C. Tata and N.Hutton (2004) ‘Beyond the Technology of Quick Fixes: Will the Judiciary Act to Protect Itself and Shore up Judicial Independence’ Federal Sentencing Reporter of the USA Vol. 6 No 1 pp 1- 31
  • Tata (2004) ‘ What Should the New Sentencing Commission Do?’ The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland February pp22-23
  • C. Tata “Accountability for the Sentencing Decision Process – Towards a New Understanding” In C. Tata  and N.Hutton (eds) Sentencing & Society : International Perspectives 2002 Ashgate Publishing. pp 438-477  ISBN: 0745621839
  • C. Tata ‘Resolute Ambivalence: Why Judiciaries Do Not Instititionalise Their Judicial Decision Support Systems’ International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 2000 Vol. 14 No.3 pp 287- 316
  • C. Tata ‘Why Study Judicial Decision Support Systems? International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 2000 Vol.14 pp 278-283
  • N. Hutton and C. Tata (2000) ‘Sentencing Reform by Self-Regulation: Present and Future Prospects of the Sentencing Information System for Scotland’s High Court Justiciary’, Scottish Journal of Criminology 6: 37-51
  • C. Tata ‘ “Neutrality”, “Choice”, and “Ownership” in the Construction, Use, and Adaptation of Judicial Decision Support Systems’ The International Journal of Law and Information Technology 1998 Vol.6 No.2. pp 143-167
  • C. Tata ‘The Application of Judicial Intelligence and “Rules” to systems Supporting Discretionary Judicial Decision-Making’, Artificial Intelligence and Law : International Journal, 1998 Vol.6 No.2-4 pp 203-230
  • C. Tata and N. Hutton ‘What “Rules” in Sentencing? Consistency and Disparity in the Absence of Rules’ The International Journal of the Sociology of Law Vol. 26 No.3 1998 pp 339-364
  • C. Tata “: So What Does ‘And Society’ Mean? Towards New Agendas for Sentencing Scholarship” In C. TATA and N.Hutton (eds Sentencing & Society : International Perspectives 2002 Ashgate Publishing. 0 7456 2183 9  pp 5 – 44
  • C. Tata ‘The Construction of “Comparison in Legal Aid Spending: The Promise and Perils of a Jurisdiction-Centred Approach to (International) Legal Aid Research’, eds F.Regan, et al The Transformation of Legal Aid: Historical and Comparative Studies Clarendon / Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN: 0-19-826589-1. pp 133-158
  • C. Tata “The Application of Judicial ‘Rules’ ” in G. Sartor and K. Branting (eds) Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers ISBN: 0-7923-5472-9 pp102 – 133 Peer Reviewed
  • ‘The Judicial Role in the Balance Between Two Visions of Justice in Sentencing’, N.Hutton and C.Tata eds. J. Jackson and S. Doran The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings. 2000. Hart Publishing. ISBN : 1-84113-045-1 pp 307 – 323.
  • C. Tata (1997) ‘Conceptions and Representations of the Sentencing Decision Process’,  The Journal of Law And Society, Vol. 24 No. 3, September 1997, pp 395 – 420
  • Tata, J.Wilson, N.Hutton ‘Representations of Knowledge and Discretionary Decision Making’, The Journal of Law, Information, and Technology 1996, No.2 Refereed http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/default.htm (8,654 words)
  • C. Tata ‘Sentencing Support for Judges: A Second generation of Information Systems’ Overcrowded Times, September 1997.
  • C. Tata ‘Judging Sentencing Reform’, Police Review : Journal of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Vol.3 , No.3, pp 42-5, September 1997.
  • C. Tata ‘Sentencing Discretion, Reform and IT’, Computers and Law, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp 29-32, June / July 1997.
  • C. Tata ‘End to Trial and Error’, The Scotsman, Law Page main feature article, 11 November 1996.
  • C. Tata, N.Hutton, J.Wilson, A.Paterson ‘Sentencing and Computerised Information Systems: The Process and Progress of the Scottish Prototype’,  The Juridical Review, January 1996, pp.486-503.
  • N.Hutton, C. Tata, J.Wilson ‘Sentencing and Information Technology: Incidental Reform?’,  The International Journal of Law and Information Technology, pp. 255 – 286, November 1995.
  • Hutton,N. Paterson,A., C. Tata, Wilson, J. ‘Decision Support for Sentencing in a Common  Law Jurisdiction’,. The Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: Proceedings of the Conference, Maryland, 1995.(Refereed)
  • C. Tata ‘Judges Go Hi-Tech’, The Lawyer, September 1995.
  • N.Hutton and C.Tata ‘The Reform of Sentencing Practice : Comments on Lord Justice Taylor’s Address to the Law Society’ The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland  (June 1993)
  • N.Hutton and C.Tata (1993) ‘Some Options for Sentencing Reform’ The Scots Law Times  (March 1993)

    Journal Editorials Published

    • C.Tata ‘Introduction’ Special Issue on Judicial Decision Support Systems for The International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 2000 vol. 14 no.3
    • C.Tata ‘Introduction’ The International Journal of Law and Information Technology 1998 Vol.6 No.2 Special Issue on ‘Judicial Decision Support Systems’
    • C. Tata Editorial ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Judicial Decision Support Systems’ The International Journal of Law and Information Technology 1998 Vol.6 No.2 pp91-92

    Chapters in Books & Anthologies

    • C. Tata (2012) ‘The Struggle for Sentencing Reform. Will the English Guidelines Model Spread?’ in A. Ashworth and J. Roberts (eds) Sentencing Guidelines Oxford University Press
    • C. Tata (2012) ‘The Sentencing Decision-Making Process’ in the Springer International Encylopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice (forthcoming)
    • C. Tata (2010) ‘Sentencing in the Age of Globalisation and Convergence?’ in H. Croall, et al (eds) Crime and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Scotland (Willan)
    • C. Tata (2009) ‘Institutional Consistency’ in A. Von Hirsch, A. Ashworth, J. Roberts et al (eds) Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy Hart Publishing, 3rd edition. Chapter 6.
    • C. Tata and F. Stephen (2007) ‘When Paying the Piper gets the ‘Wrong’ Tune: the Impact of Fixed Payments on Case Management, Case Trajectories, and ‘Quality’ in Criminal Defence Work’ in P. Pleasence, A. Buck, N.Balmer (eds) Transforming Lives: Law and Social Processes Legal Services Research Centre/ TSO pp 186-213 ISBN: 9780117021464
    • C. Tata “Accountability for the Sentencing Decision Process – Towards a New Understanding” In C. Tata  and N.Hutton (eds) Sentencing & Society : International Perspectives 2002 Ashgate Publishing. pp 438-477  ISBN: 0745621839
    • C. Tata “: So What Does ‘And Society’ Mean? Towards New Agendas for Sentencing Scholarship” In C. TATA and N.Hutton (eds Sentencing & Society : International Perspectives 2002 Ashgate Publishing. 0 7456 2183 9  pp 5 – 44
    • C. Tata ‘The Construction of “Comparison in Legal Aid Spending: The Promise and Perils of a Jurisdiction-Centred Approach to (International) Legal Aid Research’, eds F.Regan, et al The Transformation of Legal Aid: Historical and Comparative Studies Clarendon / Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN: 0-19-826589-1. pp 133-158
    • C. Tata “The Application of Judicial ‘Rules’ ” in G. Sartor and K. Branting (eds) Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers ISBN: 0-7923-5472-9 pp102 – 133 Peer Reviewed
    • ‘The Judicial Role in the Balance Between Two Visions of Justice in Sentencing’, N.Hutton and C.Tata eds. J. Jackson and S. Doran The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings. 2000. Hart Publishing. ISBN : 1-84113-045-1 pp 307 – 323.

    Volumes Author Edited

    • Author Editor for the field of ‘sentencing’ for the Springer 2012 Encylopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice. Responsible for managing 9 contributions
    • C. Tata and S. Field (eds) ‘Connecting Legal and Social Justice in the Neo-Liberal World?’ Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology 2010 Vol. 12 No.3
    • C. Tata and N.Hutton (eds) Sentencing & Society : International Perspectives 2002 Ashgate Publishing. 0 7456 2183 9  630 pages. 2004 – the book went into reprint
    • C. Tata ‘Judicial Decision Support Systems’ International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 2000 Vol.14 No.3  Editor: Cyrus Tata. ISSN: 1360-0869 pp 277 – 429
    • C. Tata and S. Schjolberg ‘Judicial Decision Support Systems’ International Journal of Law & Information Technology 1998 Vol.6 No1 ISSN: 0967 0769 pp 91-216

    Published Research Reports

    • Evaluation of Reforms to Summary Legal Assistance and Disclosure of Prosecution Evidence with P. Bradshaw, P.Duff, M. Munro C. Tata (2012) Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.
    • Impact of the Introduction of Fixed Payments into Summary Criminal Legal Aid: Report of an Independent Study F. Stephen and C. Tata (2007) Scottish Executive Social Research Legal Studies 220 pages. 0 7559 6223 0
    • Social Enquiry Reports and Sentencing in the Sheriff Court Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) S.Halliday, N.Hutton, F.McNeill, C.Tata
    • The Public Defence Solicitors Office: An Independent Evaluation (2001) T.Goriely, P. Duff, P. McCrone, C.Tata, M. Knapp, A.Henry, A.Sherr, B.Lancaster 270pp
    • Feasibility Study of the Evaluation of the Pilot Public Criminal Defence Solicitors Office. May 1998-September 1998 (Scottish Office, In press). T.Goriely, C.Tata, S. Anderson, A. Sherr, P. Duff. 133 pages
    • Expenditure on Criminal Legal Aid : Report of a Comparative Pilot Study of Scotland, England and Wales, and the Netherlands’, T.Goriely, C.Tata, A.Paterson, Scottish Office Home Department, HMSO: Edinburgh, September 1997. ISBN: 0 748 66024 0. ISSN: 0950 2254  81pages
    • A Sentencing Information System for the High Court of Justiciary: Report of the Study of the First Phase of Implementation and Enhancement, C. Tata, N.Hutton, J.Wilson, A.Paterson, I.Hughson, Scottish Courts Administration. 1999. 198 pages. Centre for Sentencing Research
    • A Sentencing Information for the Scottish High Court: Report of the Study of Feasibility, N.Hutton, A.Paterson, C. Tata, J.Wilson, Scottish Office Home Department, HMSO : Edinburgh, 1996 ISSN: 0950 2254. ISBN: 0 7480 5635 1. 94 pages.
    • Patterns of Custodial Sentencing in The Sheriff Court N.Hutton and C. Tata, Scottish Office Home Department, HMSO : Edinburgh. 1995.  86 pages. ISBN: 0950 2254