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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sentencing guidelines"”.
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Examining the impact of changes in sentencing guidelines and offender demographics on sentencing of white collar offenders
… most recent data compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission and conducted within the conceptual framework of the focal concerns perspective, the current study investigates the impact of offender characteristics, case characteristics, and legally relevant factors on the sentencing …
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Organizational ethics and maintaining an ethical environment through employee involvement
With the promulgation of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in 1991 organizations as a whole began implementing Ethics Programs. Greater attention was being given to organizational behavior and the courts were now able to hold organizations accountable for misconduct with stronger sanctions; …
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Essays in empirical law and economics
… and the calculations required by the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines allow me to compare changes in the sentence lengths of groups of offenders who were differentially affected by the decision. I find that this expansion of jury trial rights benefited criminal offenders, reducing the average …
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THE EFFECT OF SUSPENDED SENTENCES ON RECIDIVISM AND PROMOTING REHABILITATION IN SRI LANKA: COMPARATIVE INSIGHTS FROM ACROSS SELECTED JURISDICTIONS
The suspended sentence is a widely used sentencing option in the criminal justice system of many jurisdictions aimed at rehabilitation while balancing punitive measures, where a convicted individual is not immediately incarcerated, and the execution of the sentence is avoided under specific …
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The Effects of Gender on Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Sentencing Disaprities in Pennsylvania
<p>Differential sentencing has been a reoccurring issue in the judicial system for decades. Sentencing disparity occurs when similar offenders (similar in offense type, age, gender, ethnicity, and SES) receive different sentences or when different offenders receive the same sentence (Spohn, 2009). …
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An Elaboration and Analysis of Two Policy Implementation Frameworks to Better Understand Project Exile
… Exile takes advantage of stiffer bond rules and sentencing guidelines in federal court, where all cases involving felons with guns, guns and drugs, and guns and domestic violence are prosecuted. Although Project Exile has received extensive television and print media coverage, it has not caught …
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"Every picture tells a story". A study of those who gather and accumulate legal and illegal images
… in some form of collecting behaviour. Original sentencing guidelines (2004) for IIOC offending recommended higher sentences based on the nature of the images accumulated, the size of the IIOC accumulation and whether it is organised. Updated sentencing guidelines, such as the A, B, C …
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Addressing Sexual Offences in South Africa: Moving Past Rhetoric and Empty Gestures
… offences. The first is in the form of structured sentencing guidelines to steer the discretion given to judges in handing down sentences. The second is in the form of prevention strategies. This paper highlights how important it is for the government to start to implement policies that will …
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From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1968-1988
… Omnibus Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, which set sentencing guidelines that ensured historic incarceration rates. During this critical period, Presidential Administrations, State Departments, and Congress refocused the domestic agenda from social programs to crime and punishment. To challenge our …
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Evidence-Based Sentencing as Applied in a Circuit Court Using Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission Recommendations
… The focus of much attention has been the sentencing process in serious cases, and many legislative initiatives enacted harsher sentencing policies, which resulted in a sizable increase in the number of persons incarcerated in the U.S. The changes had a disproportionate effect on …
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Judges’ Gender and Judging in China
… police, the procuratorate, and the court. The Sentencing Guidelines and the Adjudication Committees of the courts are mechanisms that align judicial behaviours in the same direction. The initial findings in chapter three, based on 6,100 judgements of rape cases from 2010 to 2018 in Shanghai, …
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Federal Drug Sentencing: An Evaluation of the Consistency, Proportionality, and Fairness within Cases
… research is to evaluate fairness in federal drug sentencing. The current study uses data compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) to examine the sentence lengths of federal drug defendants sentenced in 2008. Linear ordinary least squares (OLS) regression is used to model the …
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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 …