The Significance of Offender Characteristics in Road Traffic Accident Sentencing: Exploring Objectivity and Justice Concerns

This article is devoted to the study of the influence of the person guilty of a traffic accident on the process of assigning a criminal penalty to him. The article analyzes factors related to the personality of the offender, which can have both a favorable effect on the fairness of the trial and have the opposite effect. Particular attention is paid to the problems of objectivity and fairness in taking these factors into account by the court, and ways to improve law enforcement practice in this area are proposed.