RT Article
T1 Predicting Offender-Generated Echange Rates: Implications for a Theory of Sentence Severity
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 51
IS 3
SP 373
OP 399
A2 Wood, Peter B.
A2 Mooney, Jennifer L.
A2 Minor, Kevin I.
A2 May, David C.
LA Undetermined
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1526129574
AB We solicited offender-generated exchange rates between prison and several noncustodial sanctions from a sample of 588 offender current/v serving community based punishments. We then regressed these exchange rates on demographic, attitudinal, and correctional experience indicators. Males, Blacks, older offenders, offenders with prison experience, and those who agree most strongly with reasons to avoid alternative sanctions are likely to serve less of a given alternative to avoid imprisonment. In addition, offender- generated exchange rates are used to develop a ranking of sanction severity that includes prison and nine intermediate sanctions. Implications of these findings for correctional policy, practice. and a theory of sentence severity are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
DO 10.1177/0011128704271459