RT Article
T1 Going off the grid: assessing sentencing departures for individuals convicted of sexual offenses
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 11
SP 1676
OP 1705
A1 Cole, Katrina
A2 Rydberg, Jason
A2 Cassidy, Michael
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1775333213
AB This research examines factors associated with departures from sentencing guidelines for a sample of individuals convicted of sexual offenses in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2015 (N = 26,093). We contribute to the literature on the sentencing of these cases by considering whether the impact of individual and contextual factors is conditioned by the type of sexual offense being sentenced (e.g., assaultive, child pornography, failure to comply with registration). Bayesian multilevel multinomial logit models suggested a number of legal, extralegal, and contextual correlates of departure likelihood, and indicated that the effects of offense severity, prior record, a previous sex offense conviction, multiple concurrent convictions, and court size vary across different subsets of sexual convictions.
K1 SEX offenders
K1 Sentencing
K1 Courts
K1 Quantitative
DO 10.1177/0011128720977451