The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Decision to Imprison in large Urban Jurisdictions: A Multilevel Analysis

This study examines the influence of social and legal contextual factors on the processing of individual felony cases in large urban jurisdictions for 1998. Results of hierarchical logistic regression analyses that control for the effects of individual case-level factors show that three jurisdiction...

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Authors: Weidner, Robert R. (Author) ; Frase, Richard S. 1945- (Author) ; Schultz, Jennifer S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Undetermined language
Published: 2005
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2005, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 400-424
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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