Community Context and Sentencing Decisions in 39 Counties in the United States, 1998

This study aimed to understand the extent to which punishment is influenced by the larger social context in which it occurs by examining both the main and conditioning influence of community context on individual sentences. The primary research questions for this study were (1) Does community contex...

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Main Author: Fearn, Noelle E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Research Data
Language:English
Published: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] 2004
In:Year: 2004
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Case processing
Communities
counties
court cases
Defendants
felons
Sentencing
state courts
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