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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Criminal Sentencing"”.
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The impact of algorithms in criminal sentencing on due process rights
… entirely in the remit of human beings. The criminal justice system and in particular, criminal sentencing, is no exception. The use of algorithmic tools in criminal sentencing creates various implications for due process rights due to their opacity and the use of particular input variables. …
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The role of personal mitigating factors in criminal sentencing judgments: an empirical investigation
Criminal sentencers must weight and integrate many different factors to reach a judgment, including aggravating factors that argue for a harsher sentence, and mitigating factors that suggest a more lenient sentence. Personal Mitigating Factors (PMFs) relate to the offender, rather than the offence …
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Criminal Sentencing In the Court Communities of South Carolina: An Examination of offender, Judge, and County Characteristics
<p>This study examines the sentencing practices of the court communities of South Carolina. While numerous sentencing studies have examined predictors of sentencing operating at the individual offender level, recent sentencing studies have exhibited a renewed interest in the impact that judges and …
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Street fight video exposure, affective response, racial judgments, and criminal sentencing recommendations: A study on non-fictional and non-news mediated violence
… identification levels and, in turn, their criminal punishment recommendations for racial outgroup SFV fighters. The model is informed by several social scientific theories referenced by media, identity, and social cognition scholars. Via social identity theory, exposure to racial outgroup …
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Legal financial obligations: a focal concerns perspective
… identifies three factors used by court actors in criminal sentencing: blameworthiness of the offender, protection of community, and practical constraints and consequences. Adjusting to these practical constraints causes court actors to employ "perceptual shorthand", utilizing defendant's …
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Forging a Punishing State: The Punitive Turn in U.S. Criminal and Social Policy, 1968--1980
… on seminal struggles over welfare, drug, and criminal sentencing policy, it chronicles a profound shift during the 1970s where programs that championed punishment, expulsion, and retribution supplanted policies that stressed rehabilitation and social reintegration. Specifically, it examines …
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Forging a punishing state: The punitive turn in U.S. criminal and social policy, 1968-1980
… on seminal struggles over welfare, drug, and criminal sentencing policy, it chronicles a profound shift during the 1970s where programs that championed punishment, expulsion, and retribution supplanted policies that stressed rehabilitation and social reintegration. Specifically, it examines …
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Victim Participation: Does it Impact Sentencing Departures?
Prior analyses of sentencing practices find that victim characteristics affect sentencing decisions. Yet, the impact of victim participation on sentencing departures has largely been ignored in research on victim involvement in the punishment process. The present study examines this important, …
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CAN SOCIAL PROTESTS CHANGE LOCAL SENTENCING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE 2015 BALTIMORE UPRISING
… considers their potential impact on the criminal justice system, and particularly on the courts, the institution that primarily distributes punishment and exerts formal social control. At the same time, criminologists and sociologists agree that courts do not operate in a social vacuum …
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Compensation for victims of sexual violence in South Africa : a human rights approach to remedial criminal compensation provisions
… of sexual violence complainants and witnesses in criminal sentencing matters, and in quasi-criminal civil forfeiture proceedings, as is frequently done for other classes of complainants (namely, commercial crime complainants and victims of violent crime in general). A conclusion was reached, after …
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The Paradox Of Visibility: Anti-Blackness, Pathologization, And The Limitations Of Canadian Criminal Law
… nature of anti-Black racism within Canadian criminal law, contributing to the growing body of Canadian critical race theory (CRT) literature and advancing the field of race-conscious doctrinal work on Canadian criminal law. Each chapter engages the system along different axes: (a) the …
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Hate crime law & social contention : a comparison of nongovernmental knowledge practices in Canada & the United States
… the language of antidiscrimination law. National criminal codes in both countries authorize enhanced punishment for crimes motivated by “sexual orientation” but not “gender identity” or “gender expression.” Cities and states in the United States have also adopted hate crime laws, some of which …
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Presentence detention in U.S. District Courts: the effects of race/ethnicity, gender, and social context
… on racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system, the majority of research focuses on final sentencing decisions. Less attention has been devoted to earlier stages in criminal processing, such as the presentence detention process. In fact, the analyses that did investigate …
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APPLYING GLADUE PRINCIPLES REQUIRES MEANINGFUL INCORPORATION OF INDIGENOUS LAWS AND PERSPECTIVES, INCLUDING CONSIDERATION OF COMMUNITY-BASED ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION
This thesis considers Canadian criminal sentencing laws and the implications of such upon Indigenous people.1 In particular, this thesis advocates for the immersion of Indigenous means of justice, including community-based solutions, into mainstream justice. Indigenous communities and people carry …