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2024

Tata, Cyrus and Gormley, Jay; Langer, Maximo and McConville, Michael and Wright, Luke, eds. (2024) Guilty pleas, sentencing and sentence 'discounting' : who is sentence 'discounting' really for? In: The Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice. Research Handbooks on Criminal Law and Justice series . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 264-277. ISBN 9781802206678

2023

Field, Stewart and Tata, Cyrus; Field, Stewart and Tata, Cyrus, eds. (2023) Locating the ideal defendant : punishment, violence and legitimacy. In: Criminal Justice and the Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility. Oñati International Series in Law and Society . Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 3-27. ISBN 9781509939947

Tata, Cyrus; Field, Stewart and Tata, Cyrus, eds. (2023) Punishment and the 'blind symbiosis' of legal and rehabilitation work in the making of the 'ideal' defendant. In: Criminal Justice and the Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility. Oñati International Series in Law and Society . Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 213-237. ISBN 9781509939947

2022

Gormley, Jay and Roberts, Julian and Pina-Sánchez, Jose and Tata, Cyrus and Navarro, Ana (2022) The Methodological Challenges of Comparative Sentencing Research : Literature Review. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

Tata, Cyrus (2022) The Potential and Pitfalls of Comparative Sentencing Research. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

Gormley, Jay and O' Malley, Tom and Roberts, Julian and Spohn, Cassia and Tata, Cyrus (2022) Assessing Approaches to Sentencing Data and Analysis : Final Report. Judicial Council of Ireland, Dublin.

Gormley, Jay and O' Malley, Tom and Roberts, Julian and Spohn, Cassia and Tata, Cyrus (2022) Assessing Methodological Approaches to Sentencing Data & Analysis : Report 3: Recommendations. Judicial Council of Ireland, Dublin.

Gormley, Jay and O' Malley, Tom and Roberts, Julian and Spohn, Cassia and Tata, Cyrus (2022) Assessing Methodological Approaches to Sentencing Data & Analysis : Report 2: USA, England and Wales, and Scotland. Judicial Council of Ireland, Dublin.

2021

Gormley, Jay and O' Malley, Tom and Roberts, Julian and Spohn, Cassia and Tata, Cyrus (2021) Assessing Methodological Approaches to Sentencing Data & Analysis : Report 1: Ireland. Judicial Council of Ireland, Dublin.

Gormley, Jay and Tata, Cyrus; Tudor, Steve and Weisman, Richard and Proeve, Michael and Rossmanith, Kate, eds. (2021) Remorse and sentencing in a world of plea bargaining. In: Remorse and Criminal Justice : Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. Routledge, London, pp. 40-66. ISBN 9780367028763

Biggs, Hannah and Reid, Susan and Attygalle, Kaushi and Vosnaki, Konstantina and McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus (2021) Public Perceptions of Sentencing Sexual Offences in Scotland : Qualitative Research Exploring Sexual Offences. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

Reid, Susan and Biggs, Hannah and Attygalle, Kaushi and Vosnaki, Konstantina and McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus (2021) Public Perceptions of Sentencing : Qualitative Research Exploring Causing Death by Driving Offences. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

McPherson, Rachel and Burgess, Nicholas and Gormley, Jay and Tata, Cyrus (2021) Sexual Offences Involving Rape. Scottish Sentencing Council, Parliament House, Edinburgh.

McPherson, Rachel and Gormley, Jay and Burgess, Nicholas and Tata, Cyrus (2021) Sexual Offences Involving Sexual Assault. Scottish Sentencing Council, Parliament House, Edinburgh.

2020

Gormley, Jay and McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus (2020) Sentence Discounting : Sentencing and Plea Decision-Making. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

Tata, Cyrus (2020) Sentencing : A Social Process : Re-thinking Research and Policy. Socio-Legal Series (1). Palgrave Pivot, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 9783030010607

2019

Tata, Cyrus (2019) Humanising punishment? Mitigation and "case-cleansing" prior to sentencing. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 9 (5). pp. 659-683. ISSN 2079-5971

Black, Carolyn and Warren, Rachel and Ormston, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus (2019) Public Perceptions of Sentencing : National Survey Report. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

Tata, Cyrus (2019) Sentencing & penal policy : ending prison as the default. Probation Quarterly (12). pp. 33-36.

Gormley, Jay and Tata, Cyrus; Spohn, Cassia and Brennan, Pauline, eds. (2019) To plead? or not to plead? 'Guilty' is the question. Re-thinking plea decision-making in anglo-american countries. In: Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century. Routledge, New York, NY, pp. 208-234. ISBN 978-0367136499

Tata, Cyrus (2019) 'Ritual individualisation' : creative genius at sentencing, mitigation and conviction. Journal of Law and Society, 46 (1). pp. 112-140. ISSN 0263-323X

Tata, Cyrus (2019) Selling 'alternatives to prison' to judicial consumers : why the market logic fails. Probation Quarterly (11). pp. 39-42.

2018

Tata, Cyrus (2018) Reducing prison sentencing through pre-sentence reports? Why the quasi-market logic of 'selling alternatives to custody' fails. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice (formerly The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice), 57 (4). pp. 472-494. ISSN 1468-2311

McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus (2018) Causing Death by Driving Offences : Literature Review. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.

2017

Tata, Cyrus and Jamieson, Fiona (2017) Just Emotions? The need for emotionally-intelligent justice policy. Scottish Justice Matters, 5 (1). pp. 32-33. ISSN 2052-7950

2016

Tata, Cyrus and Gormley, Jay M.; (2016) Sentencing and plea bargaining : guilty pleas versus trial verdicts. In: Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199935383

Tata, Cyrus (2016) How can prison sentencing be reduced? Scottish Justice Matters, 4 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 2052-7950

Tata, Cyrus (2016) Sentencing and release from prison : the end of ‘automatic early release’? Scottish Justice Matters. ISSN 2052-7950

2015

Tata, Cyrus (2015) Sentencing and penal policy in the new Scotland : consultation on extending the presumption against short custodial sentences. Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice. pp. 1-13.

Tata, Cyrus (2015) A way forward on sentencing, rehabilitation and imprisonment. ScottishLegal.Com, Dundee.

Tata, Cyrus (2015) A way forward on sentencing, rehabilitation and imprisonment. Holyrood. ISSN 1466-741X

Tata, Cyrus (2015) Sentencing and the allure of imprisonment : why rehabilitation should not be a ground for custodial sentencing. Scottish Justice Matters. ISSN 2052-7950

2013

Tata, Cyrus (2013) Beyond the revolving court door : is it time for problem-solving courts? Scottish Justice Matters, 1 (1). pp. 17-18. ISSN 2052-7950

Tata, Cyrus (2013) Sentencing, welfare and justice : what can and do pre-sentence reports achieve in sentencing. Ryukoku Corrections and Rehabilitation Center Journal (3). ISSN 2186-8018

Tata, Cyrus; Ashworth, Andrew and Roberts, Julian V., eds. (2013) The struggle for sentencing reform : will the English guidelines model spread? In: Sentencing Guidelines. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 236-256. ISBN 9780199684571

2012

Weaver, Beth and Tata, Cyrus and Munro, Mary and Barry, Monica (2012) The failure of recall to prison : early release, front-door and back-door sentencing and the revolving prison door in Scotland. European Journal of Probation, 4 (1). pp. 85-98. ISSN 2066-2203

Bradshaw, Paul and Sharp, Clare and Duff, Pete and Tata, Cyrus and Barry, Monica and Munro, Mary and McCrone, Paul (2012) Evaluation of the Reforms to Summary Criminal Legal Assistance and Disclosure. The Stationery Office, Edinburgh.

2011

Tata, Cyrus and Thomson, Douglas (2011) Sentencing and release from prison : the Custodial Sentences and Weapons Act. SCOLAG Journal, 401. p. 57. ISSN 1749-7671

Tata, Cyrus and Burns, Nicola and Halliday, Simon and Hutton, Neil and Mcneill, Fergus (2011) Les rapports présentenciels et leur réception par les juridictions pénales : rune echerche écossaise. Actualite Juridique Penal (9). pp. 395-401. 9.

2010

Tata, Cyrus; Croall, H. and Mooney, Gerry and Munro, Mary, eds. (2010) Sentencing and penal practices : Is Scotland losing its distinctiveness? In: Criminal Justice in Scotland. Willan. ISBN 978-1-84392-785-3

Tata, Cyrus and Field, Stewart (2010) Connecting legal and social justice in the neo-liberal world? : the construction interpretation and use of pre-sentence reports. Punishment and Society, 12 (3). 235–238. ISSN 1462-4745

Tata, Cyrus (2010) A sense of justice : the role of pre-sentence reports in the production (and disruption) of guilt and guilty pleas. Punishment and Society, 12 (3). pp. 239-261. ISSN 1462-4745

Hutton, Neil and Tata, Cyrus (2010) A sentencing exception? Changing sentencing policy in Scotland. Federal Sentencing Reporter, 22 (4). pp. 272-278. ISSN 1053-9867

2009

McNeil, Fergus and Burns, Nicola and Halliday, Simon and Hutton, Neil and Tata, Cyrus (2009) Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration : penal adaptation and misadaptation. Punishment and Society, 11 (4). pp. 419-442. ISSN 1462-4745

Halliday, Simon and Burns, Nicola and Hutton, Neil and McNeill, Fergus and Tata, Cyrus (2009) Street-level bureaucracy, interprofessional relations, and coping mechanisms : a study of criminal justice social workers in the sentencing process. Law and Policy, 31 (4). pp. 405-428. ISSN 0265-8240

Tata, Cyrus; Von Hirsch, A. and Ashworth, A. and Roberts, J., eds. (2009) Institutional consistency : appeal court judgements. In: Principle sentencing: Readings on theory and policy. Hart Publishing, pp. 276-279. ISBN 1841137170

2008

Tata, Cyrus and Burns, Nicola and Halliday, Simon and Hutton, Neil and McNeill, Fergus (2008) Assisting and advising the sentencing decision process : the pursuit of 'quality' in pre-sentence reports. The British Journal of Criminology, 48 (6). pp. 835-855. ISSN 0007-0955

Stephen, Frank H. and Fazio, Giorgio and Tata, Cyrus (2008) Incentives, criminal defence lawyers and plea bargaining. International Review of Law and Economics, 28 (3). pp. 212-219.

Halliday, Simon and Burns, Nicola and Hutton, Neil and McNeil, F. and Tata, Cyrus (2008) Shadow writing and participant observation : a study of criminal justice social work around sentencing. Journal of Law and Society, 35 (2). pp. 189-213. ISSN 0263-323X

Hutton, Neil and Halliday, Simon and McNeil, F. and Tata, Cyrus (2008) Social enquiry reports and sentencing in the sheriff courts. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

2007

Tata, Cyrus (2007) In the Interests of clients or commerce? Legal aid, supply, demand, and 'ethical indeterminacy' in criminal defence work. Journal of Law and Society, 34 (4). ISSN 0263-323X

Tata, Cyrus (2007) Sentencing as craftwork and the binary epistemologies of the discretionary decision process. Social and Legal Studies, 16 (3). pp. 425-447. ISSN 0964-6639

Stephen, F. and Tata, Cyrus (2007) Impact of the introduction of fixed payments into summary criminal legal aid : report of an independant study. Scottish Executive, Scotland.

Tata, C. and Stephen, F.; Pleasence, P. and Buck, A. and Balmer, N., eds. (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: Transforming lives. The Stationery Office, UK, pp. 186-210. ISBN 9780117021464

2006

Tata, Cyrus and Stephen, Frank (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 - London, 2006 (8). pp. 722-741. ISSN 0011-135X

2004

Tata, Cyrus and Goriely, Tamara and McCrone, Paul and Duff, Peter and Henry, Alistair and Knapp, Martin and Sherr, Avrom and Lancaster, Becki (2004) Does mode of delivery make a difference to criminal case outcomes and clients' satisfaction? The public defence solicitor experiment. Criminal Law Review - London, 2004. pp. 120-136. ISSN 0011-135X

2002

Tata, Cyrus; Tata, C. and Hutton, N., eds. (2002) Accountability for the sentencing decision process : Towards a new understanding. In: Sentencing and Society. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, pp. 399-420. ISBN 0754621839

Tata, Cyrus and Hutton, Neil (2002) Sentencing and society : International perspectives. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 0754621839

Tata, C.; Tata, Cyrus and Hutton, Neil, eds. (2002) So what does 'and society' mean? : Towards the new agendas for sentencing scholarship. In: Sentencing & Society. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, United Kingdom, pp. 5-44. ISBN 978-0-7546-2183-6

2001

Goriely, Tamara and McCrone, P and Duff, P and Knapp, M. and Henry, A and Tata, Cyrus and Lancaster, B and Sherr, A. (2001) The public defence solicitors office : An independant evaluation. The Scottish Government.

2000

Hutton, Neil and Tata, Cyrus; Doran, S. and Jackson, J., eds. (2000) The judicial role in the balance between two visions of justice in sentencing. In: The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings. Hart Publishing, pp. 307-323. ISBN 1-84113-045-01

Tata, Cyrus (2000) Introduction: Why study judicial decision support systems? International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 14 (3). pp. 279-282. ISSN 1360-0869

Tata, Cyrus (2000) Resolute ambivalence : Why judiciaries do not instititionalise their judicial decision support systems. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 14 (3). pp. 297-316. ISSN 1360-0869

Tata, Cyrus and Hutton, Neil (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. pp. 37-51.

1999

Tata, Cyrus; Regan, Francis and Paterson, Alan and Goriely, Tamara and Fleming, Don, eds. (1999) Comparing legal aid spending : The promise and perils of a jurisdiction-centred approach to (international) legal aid research. In: The Transformation of Legal Aid. Oxford University Press, pp. 133-158. ISBN 978-0-19-826589-4

1998

Tata, C. and Hutton, N. (1998) What 'rules' in sentencing? consistency and disparity in the absence of 'rules'. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 26 (3). pp. 339-364. ISSN 0194-6595

Tata, Cyrus (1998) Introduction to the special issue on judicial decision support systems. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 6 (2). pp. 91-92. ISSN 0967-0769

Tata, Cyrus (1998) 'Neutrality', 'choice', and 'ownership' in the construction, use, and adaptation of judicial decision support systems. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 6 (2). pp. 143-166. ISSN 0967-0769

Tata, Cyrus (1998) The application of judicial intelligence and "rules" to systems supporting discretionary judicial decision-making. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 6 (2-4). pp. 203-230.

Tata, Cyrus; Sartor, G. and Branting, K., eds. (1998) The application of judicial intelligence and 'rules' to systems supporting discretionary judicial decision-making. In: Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 99-127. ISBN 0-7923-5472-9

1997

Tata, Cyrus and Paterson, Alan and Goriely, Tamara (1997) Expenditure on criminal legal aid report of a comparative pilot study of scotland, england and wales, and the netherlands : Report of a comparative pilot study of scotland, england and wales, and the netherlands. HMSO.

Tata, Cyrus (1997) Conceptions and representations of the sentencing decision process. Journal of Law and Society, 24 (3). pp. 395-420. ISSN 0263-323X

1996

Tata, Cyrus and Hutton, Neil and Wilson, J. and Paterson, Alan (1996) Sentencing and computerised information systems : The process and progress of the Scottish prototype. Juridical Review. pp. 486-503.

Tata, Cyrus and Wilson, J. and Hutton, Neil (1996) Representations of knowledge and discretionary decision-making by decision-support systems : The case of judicial sentencing. Journal of Information, Law and Technology, 1996 (2). ISSN 1361-4169

Hutton, Neil and Paterson, Alan and Tata, Cyrus and Wilson, J. (1996) A sentencing information for the Scottish high court : Report of the study of feasibilty. HMSO, Edinburgh.

1995

Hutton, Neil and Tata, Cyrus (1995) Patterns of custodial sentencing in the sheriff court. HMSO, Edinburgh.

1994

Hutton, Neil and Tata, Cyrus and Wilson, John (1994) Sentencing and information technology : incidental reform? International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 2 (3). pp. 255-286. ISSN 0967-0769