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Sentencing Guidelines : Lessons from Pennsylvania /
Sentencing guidelines, adopted by many states in recent decades, are intended to eliminate the impact of bias based on factors ranging from a criminal's ethnicity or gender to the county in which he or she was convicted. But have these guidelines achieved their goal of "fair punishment&quo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
Lynne Rienner Publishers,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 Understanding Sentencing
- 2 Constructing Pennsylvania's Sentencing Guidelines
- 3 Pennsylvania's Commission Meets New Challenges
- 4 Sentencing Serious Violent Offenders
- 5 Racial, Ethnic, Gender, and Age Disparity
- 6 Location Matters: Variation Between Counties
- 7 Guilty Pleas vs. Trial Convictions: Unwarranted Disparity?
- 8 Guidelines and Mandatory Minimums
- 9 Can Guidelines Change Sentencing Practices?
- 10 Lessons from Pennsylvania's Struggle for Justice
- Research Methods Appendix
- References
- Index
- About the Book