Belgian sentencing is in a period of turmoil. Belgian judges value their independence. Most believe in the desirability of individualized sentencing and resent intrusions on their autonomy. Although many continue to hold classsical views about the purposes of sentencing, new practices and laws, triggered partly by several decades of rising imprisonment rates and recent efforts by policy makers and correctional officials to contain it, have changed the penal landscape. The public prosecutor has increasing authority to divert cases from investigation and from sentencing judges, leading to de facto sentencing powers for prosecutors. Recent and upcoming innovations have created new freestanding sanctions of work penalties (often elsewhere called community service), electronic monitoring, and probation. A more fully bifurcated legal system is emerging with longer prison sentences for some offenses and offenders, including postprison preventive detention, and more community punishments aiming for a reduced use of imprisonment for others. Many judges are unconvinced though about the desirability of reduced imprisonment use for some convicted offenders. It remains to be seen what Belgian sentencing will look like when practices incorporating recent changes have stabilized.

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比利时判刑是分叉的做法？

比利时的判刑处于动荡时期。比利时法官重视他们的独立性。大多数人相信个人化的量刑和对他们的自主权的不满的可取性。尽管许多人仍对判决的目的持古典看法，但新的做法和法律（部分原因是几十年来不断提高的监禁率以及决策者和惩教官员最近为遏制它而做出的努力）改变了刑法格局。检察官越来越有权力将案件从调查和量刑法官中转移出来，从而赋予检察官事实上的量刑权力。最新的和即将到来的创新创造了对工作处罚（通常在其他地方称为社区服务），电子监控和缓刑的新的独立制裁。更加完善的法律体系正在形成，对某些犯罪和罪犯的判处更长的徒刑，包括监狱后预防性拘留，以及旨在减少对其他人使用监禁的更多社区惩罚。尽管对于减少一些定罪犯的监禁的可取性，许多法官还是没有说服力。当结合最近变化的做法稳定下来时，比利时的判刑将是什么样子还有待观察。