Sentencing Guidelines : : Lessons from Pennsylvania / / Jeffrey T. Ulmer, John H. Kramer.
Sentencing guidelines, adopted by many states in recent decades, are intended to eliminate the impact of bias based on factors ranging from a criminal’s ethnicity or gender to the county in which he or she was convicted. But have these guidelines achieved their goal of “fair punishment”? And how do...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 Understanding Sentencing
- 2 Constructing Pennsylvania’s Sentencing Guidelines
- 3 Pennsylvania’s Commission Meets New Challenges
- 4 Sentencing Serious Violent Offenders
- 5 Racial, Ethnic, Gender, and Age Disparity
- 6 Location Matters: Variation Between Counties
- 7 Guilty Pleas vs. Trial Convictions: Unwarranted Disparity?
- 8 Guidelines and Mandatory Minimums
- 9 Can Guidelines Change Sentencing Practices?
- 10 Lessons from Pennsylvania’s Struggle for Justice
- Research Methods Appendix
- References
- Index
- About the Book