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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Focal Concerns Theory"”.
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Legal financial obligations: a focal concerns perspective
… the monetary amount of these LFOs. Drawing on focal concerns theory, first developed by Steffensmeier (1980), which identifies three factors used by court actors in criminal sentencing: blameworthiness of the offender, protection of community, and practical constraints and consequences. …
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Federal Drug Sentencing: An Evaluation of the Consistency, Proportionality, and Fairness within Cases
… The analysis of this research is framed by the focal concerns theory of judicial decision-making, first articulated by Steffensmeier (1980). The current study finds that defendants' race/ethnicity does not influence sentence lengths after legally relevant guideline variables are controlled. …
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Decision-Making in Mental Health Courts: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Legal and Extra-Legal Factors in Evaluations of Mentally Ill Defendants
… of attribution and heuristics in addition to the focal concerns framework from the criminal justice literature. This dissertation describes three studies investigating decision-making among MHC workgroups. The first study describes ethnographic observations of three remote MHCs in the United …
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Court Actor Decision-Making: The Influence of Victim Characteristics on Legal Outcomes in Cases of Bias Homicide
<p>While most states in America have passed laws permitting harsher punishments for those convicted of hate (or bias) crimes, there has been no research to date on the adjudication of these defendants, including how legal and extralegal attributes of bias crime shape prosecutorial and judicial …