{"id":550100,"date":"2006-09-07T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T12:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550100-software-justice-for-china.html"},"modified":"2006-09-07T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T12:37:01","slug":"software-justice-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550100-software-justice-for-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Software justice for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Zichuan District Court in east China&#8217;s Shandong province has installed programs on judges&#8217; computers that provide advice on the proper verdicts in criminal cases, the state-run China Daily reported. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The move appears to be aimed at ensuring standardised decisions and addressing common complaints that China&#8217;s judges are ill-trained, corrupt and make arbitrary rulings. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We aim to establish a regular sentence pattern for criminal trials to avoid different penalties for the same crimes,&quot; said Wang Hongmei, chief judge at the court. Many judges in China have not received a college education and lack sufficient training in law, although the government has made efforts in recent years to raise the professional standard. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In the Shandong experiment, judges simply enter the relevant details of the crimes plus mitigating circumstances &#8211; and the program immediately comes up with an appropriate verdict, according to the paper. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">But, the penalty calculator does not have the final say. Judges will retain the power to hand down their own sentences, depending on circumstances they deem particular to a case. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges are not usually at risk of losing their jobs to modern technology but that may be changing in China, where new software is handing down sentences automatically. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}