Sex, Politics, and U.S. District Court Outcomes: Examining Variation in Judge-Initiated Downward Guideline Departures

Disparity in sentencing outcomes continues to garner considerable attention in the research literature. Much of the extant literature focuses on the impact of case-level, and to a lesser extent, court-level characteristics on individual sentencing outcomes. At the federal level, recent research by t...

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Authors: Crow, Matthew (Author) ; Goulette, Natalie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2023, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 295-318
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Courts
Guideline Departure
Judges
Judicial Decision Making
Sentencing