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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Sentence Length"”.
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Does Time Matter? An Examination Of Sentence Length, Time Served And Probation Outcomes
… In the studies that do include a time measure, sentence length is the most frequently used and is often related to failure and recidivism (Cockerill, 1975; Renner, 1978; Roundtree, Edwards & Parker, 1984; Morgan, 1993). Sentence length, however, may not provide the best measure of time on …
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Mechanisms of Juvenile Transfer: Variations in Incarceration and Sentence Length in Criminal Court
The judge's ability to transfer a juvenile to adult court through judicial waiver has been in existence since the inception of the juvenile court in 1899. In response to increases in violent juvenile crime, state legislatures created and expanded juvenile transfer policies in the mid to late …
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Sentence Length and Recidivism: Are Longer Incarcerations the Solution to High Rates of Reoffending?
The effect of sentence length on recidivism is an important area of research in the fields of Sociology and Criminology. With all of the social and economic considerations that go into the effectiveness of a correctional institution, there is a consistent demand for making sure these institutions …
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The Expanding Definition of Crime and Its Effect on the Individual: A Multilevel Modeling Analysis
… and other state-level contextual variables on sentence length. At the individual level, the model suggests the race of the inmate has some, though nonsignificant, influence on sentence length. At the state level, PPI is significant (p = .011) for predicting states' average sentence length. Type …
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The Formation of "Outsider" Through Labeling and Sentence Lengths for Immigrants of Hispanic Descent.
… in the United States held the opinion that a sentence length over 15 years was appropriate for non-U.S. individuals. Other purposes were to determine if individuals with high religiosity or who carried a lethal weapon also held the opinion that a sentence length over 15 years was appropriate …
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The effect of mental illness characteristics and diagnoses on juror sentencing decisions
… between juror symptomology and recommended sentence length of the defendant in years. Personal symptomology of jurors' is a predictor of recommended sentence length of a defendant, in years (p < .05). Implications for future research and for practical applications are discussed.
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Structural and Syntactical Differences Between Revised Writing and Impromptu Writing of Award-Winning Eighth-Grade Students
… including readability level, number of words, sentences, and paragraphs, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, usage, sentence length and variety, and verb choice. Although data revealed significant differences between the two sets of writings (primarily counts of length), the two sets of …
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Retrieval mechanisms in sentence comprehension
… mechanisms to understand syntactically complex sentences with multiple embeddings. Systematically designed sentence stimuli tested whether the relevant memory mechanism differs when reanalysis is required. Results indicated that sentence length and syntactic ambiguity affected overall accuracy …
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A comparison of decontextualized and contextualized reading skills in persons with severe aphasia
… In the DSRT condition, participants read a sentence-length question prior to selecting one of 3-to-5 printed responses with no supports. In CCRC, partners presented graphic sentence stimuli representing conversational questions and response choices with the following supports: simultaneous …
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No Halos For Sex Offenders: An Examination Of The Effects Of Appearance And Gender On The Perception Of Sex Offenders
… showed that attractiveness did not affect the sentence length. In addition, attraction of the defendant did not affect whether participants believed the defendant should register as a sex offender or the length of time on the registry. For those who did not view the actions of the teacher as a …
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The loneliness of the long-distance reader: a review of the reading demand of a key stage 1 mathematics test
… analysed for readability using word lists and sentence length as the main criteria. The conclusion is that the reading demand is inappropriate for many year 2 readers and that some children did not receive the reading support that they required to access the mathematics. This raises questions …
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Judges’ Gender and Judging in China
… male judges, the panel often issued a shorter sentence length, compared to the sentence length issued by an all-female panel. Chapters four and five, which used qualitative research methods, uncover the behavioural differences at work between male and female judges. In chapter four, it is shown …
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Representation of Women In 19Th Century Popular Art and Literature: Forget Me Not and La Revista Moderna
<p>Sentences offer a useful level of linguistic complexity for both the teaching and study of speechreading. In this study we measured the effect of providing orthographic cues to the content of the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Sentences. Three experimental topics were addressed. In each …
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The Effects Of Orthographic Cueing On The Speechreadability Of Sentences
<p> Sentences offer a useful level of linguistic complexity for both the teaching and study of speechreading. In this study we measured the effect of providing orthographic cues to the content of the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Sentences. Three experimental topics were addressed. In each …
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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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A Comparison of Selected Stylistic Features in Technical and Non-Technical Writing
… precision, and vigor. Procedure. Ten 15-sentence samples from journals in science and engineering were compared with ten 15-sentence samples from journals in the humanities. Readability was measured by average sentence length, average T-unit length, percentage of sentences using …
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The processing of formulaic language on elicited imitation tasks by second language speakers
… in order to compare repetition of individual sentences containing formulaic sequences (FS) to repetition of sentences that do not. In addition to the presence of FS, the length of stimuli sentences was manipulated and compared to a second independent variable. Responses to EI tasks were …
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Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study
… development and 4) the development of mean length of utterance in this population. Methods: The study used a mixed methods approach. For Phase one, a parentreport tool, the MB-CDI, was cross-culturally adapted for Xitsonga. Phase two was a pilot study where the first draft of the Xitsonga …
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A stylistic analysis of Oshiwambo wedding songs in a book entitled Oshipapa Moonkuluhedhi by Petrus Mbenzi
… that are discussed in this language aspect are: sentence length; types of sentences; questions as stylistic features; rhetorical question, hortative sentences and refrain. At semantic level, the study identified simile, metaphor, euphemism, anti-thesis and enjambment as the stylistic and …
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Political Motive and Bail: The Effect of Prosecutorial Strategies on Pretrial Decisions in Federal Terrorism Trials
… predictor of both disposition and the sentence length in terrorism trials. This study focuses on the question of whether the use of an explicitly political prosecution strategy impacts pretrial decisions in terrorism cases and whether the pretrial decisions impact the guilty plea rates …
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