Social worlds of sentencing court communities under sentencing guidelines /
"Many states and the federal system have embraced sentencing guidelines as a mechanism of sentencing reform. This book draws from interactionist theories of organizations and James Eisenstein's depiction of courts as communities to frame an investigation of sentencing disparity, case proce...
| Main Author: | Ulmer, Jeffery T., 1966- |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[1997]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 233 pages). |
| Series: |
SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Courts, Sentencing, and Sentencing Guidelines
- 2. Court Communities as Social Worlds
- 3. Data and Analytical Strategy
- 4. Statewide Sentencing Outcomes
- 5. Metro County
- 6. Rich County
- 7. Southwest County
- 8. Conclusion: Court Communities and Sentencing under Guidelines
- App. A. Pennsylvania Sentencing Guidelines
- App. B. Examples of Interview Questions by Topic
- App. C. Descriptive Statistics: Variables in State-wide Analysis.