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Penal sanctioning in the United States : explaining cross-state differences /
Laubepin investigates differences in the scope of penal sanctioning in the American states over a thirty-year period. Her analyses replicate and expand prior research examining the determinants of incarceration rates, and explore whether this theoretical framework can be usefully applied to back-end...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Publishing,
2015.
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| Collection: | Criminal justice: recent scholarship
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Laubepin investigates differences in the scope of penal sanctioning in the American states over a thirty-year period. Her analyses replicate and expand prior research examining the determinants of incarceration rates, and explore whether this theoretical framework can be usefully applied to back-end sentencing (parole revocation). She finds that states have responded to similar policy problems with solutions shaped by local social, political, economic and cultural conditions. Not only are these dynamics historically contingent, but they also play out differently at the front and back ends of t. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781593327941 1593327943 |