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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Legal and Extralegal"”.
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Factors in Juvenile Court Dispositions: Case Study of a Rural Juvenile Court
… adjudicated delinquent with respect to their legal and extralegal characteristics, and their dispositional rulings. Additionally, this study examines the bivariate associations between legal and extralegal factors and judges' dispositional rulings. Finally, this study examines some prediction …
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Justice Denied: Low Submission Rates of Sexual Assault Kits and The Predicting Variables
… health care services with evidence collected and packaged in sexual assault kits (SAKs). This large (N=1,874), retrospective study examined rates of sexual assault kit (SAK) submissions by law enforcement (LE) to the state crime laboratory for analysis at four sites in Utah with established …
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Mechanisms of Juvenile Transfer: Variations in Incarceration and Sentence Length in Criminal Court
… juvenile crime, state legislatures created and expanded juvenile transfer policies in the mid to late 1990's. Although many of these policies have been in effect for almost 15 years, there is little empirical work examining how type of transfer can affect sentencing outcomes in adult court. …
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Court Actor Decision-Making: The Influence of Victim Characteristics on Legal Outcomes in Cases of Bias Homicide
… adjudication of these defendants, including how legal and extralegal attributes of bias crime shape prosecutorial and judicial decision-making. This gap in research is likely due in part to the limitations of official data on bias crimes. Fortunately, new data on legal outcomes for bias homicide …
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The Effects of Prior Stages of Criminal Justice Decision-Making on Criminal Sentencing: A Test of Three Models
Previous research has analyzed the effects of legal and extralegal factors on criminal justice decision-making. Most of this research analyzes discrete stages, rather than multiple stages of the criminal justice process. Using data on felony convictions in a New Jersey State Court, this study …
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Automobile Searches: The Gap Between the Theory and Praxis of Law
The overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities at every stage of the criminal justice process has brought about legislative, judicial, and voluntary data explorations of law enforcement practices. As the gatekeepers to the criminal justice process, police greatly influence who comes in …
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Impact of Offender Sex Across Legal Decision-Making Intercepts in Cases of Domestic Violence: a Meta-Analysis
… Thus far, researchers have examined a variety of legal and extralegal factors involved in the sociolegal response to DV, including offender/victim sex. The outcomes of these studies have produced mixed results, and emerging scholarship often emphasizes the complexity involved within legal …
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
… decision, or waiver of jurisdiction, is a legal maneuver by which young offenders are diverted away from the juvenile justice system and subsequently processed and adjudicated within adult systems of law. Although transfer decisions have a long history in modern American jurisprudence, …