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Understanding public attitudes toward sentencing.
Public attitudes toward sentencing are complex. However, it is important to understand what the public's ideas are about the types of sentences that should be given to offenders. The aim of the present study was to empirically examine public attitudes toward sentencing in Canada. In particular, the …
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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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Juvenile Justice Sentencing: Are There Alternatives?
Research indicates that states have implemented juvenile justice reforms to enact harsher punishments, to transfer greater numbers and younger juvenile offenders to adult criminal court, and to restrict discretion of the juvenile court judges. Social science studies have found that harsher …
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Penal Communication in Crown Court Sentencing
… explores the nature of communication in sentencing remarks by judges in three Crown Court sites in South East England in order to form a sound basis for the evaluation of penal practices. It seeks specifically to uncover how, if at all, the notion of penal censure operates in this …
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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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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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Evaluating the sentencing of non-violent drug offenders
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Sentencing reforms in a postcolonial society: a call for the rationalisation of sentencing discretion in Nigeria, drawing on South Africa and England
… that sentencers introduce proportionality to sentencing and refrain from imposing penalties that infringe constitutional rights. The investigation involves two stages of analysis. First, the thesis examines the socio-historical context in which the practice of punishment evolved in England, …
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REDUCING DISPARITY IN JUDICIAL SENTENCING: A SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
… also psychologists--have studied judicial sentencing. More than half a century of research, employing multiple methodologies, strongly demonstrates that the unguided use (or abuse) of discretion has frequently led to vast disparity in judicial sentencing; i.e. large variations among …
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Aerothermal Sentencing for Manufacturing Variations on Turbine Blade Shrouds
… performance and introduce uncertainty in the sentencing. Therefore, aerothermal tolerances for shroud platform variations are developed in this research project. Steady RANS simulations are run on a three passage HPT rotor model with engine-representative shroud platform manufacturing …
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Improving Comprehension Of Capital Sentencing Instructions: A Bias Reduction Approach
… often confused by the instructions used in the sentencing phase of a capital trial. Social scientists have used two different methods to improve juror understanding of legal instructions, psycholinguistic rewrites and bias-reduction techniques. Psycholinguistic rewrites of legal instructions …
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Sexual offending and sentencing: an investigation of the factors affecting sentencing decisions regarding perpetrators of sexual offences against children. In particular an investigation of the impact and usefulness clinical psychology reports have in judicial decisions about sentencing sexual offenders.
The sentencing of sexual offenders has become a national concern with public outcries about the injustice of the diversity of sentencing. Clinical Psychologists working in Forensic settings are increasingly involved in the treatment of child sexual offenders through consultation and therapeutic …
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Immigration and sentencing: does geograhical region of citizenship influence sentence longevity?
A large volume of sentencing research has examined the effects of offender characteristics on sentencing outcomes. Most of this research has focused on offender race/ethnicity. Despite the growth of immigration debates in the United States, there is limited knowledge on the role played by …
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The impact of algorithms in criminal sentencing on due process rights
… 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. <br/><br/>Currently, the majority of academic …
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Application of prescribed minimum sentencing legislation on juvenile offenders in South Africa
… legal position in South Africa with regard to sentencing of juvenile offenders.
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The Use of Neuroscience for Mitigation During Sentencing in Non-Capital Cases
<p>Neuroscience is increasingly used during sentencing in criminal courtrooms to mitigate punishment. However, neuroscience is not presented in a vacuum—it is generally used to describe a defendant’s neuropsychological state in the context of other mitigating circumstances. It is important to …
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The development of a juvenile sentencing jurisprudence in the absence of legislation
The South African Law Commission Project Committee submitted a report and draft Bill to Parliament on 8 August 2000 addressing the creation of a juvenile justice system.i Parliament has to date failed to implement legislation regulating juvenile justice in South Africa thereby failing to create a …
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An examination of legal representation on plea bargained sentencing outcomes for criminal defendants
… regarding the influence of attorney type on sentencing outcomes. This study bridges this gap through a quantitative examination of attorney type and its impact on sentencing. Indigent defendants, unable to bear the financial burden of legal representation, are informed by a judge of the …
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A comparative look of sentencing outcomes based on the defendant's country of citizenship
… lower status countries, this study used federal sentencing data for 2015 to examine the effects of the defendant’s country of citizenship on sentence outcomes. Although the United States Sentencing Commission has long stipulated that national origin isn’t a relevant factor in determining …
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