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Sentencing Guidelines : Lessons from Pennsylvania / Jeffrey T. Ulmer, John H. Kramer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (273 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781588269188
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.748/0772
LOC classification:
  • KFP583.2 ǂb K736 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 the concerns of local courts shape sentencing under guidelines? In this comprehensive examination of the development, reform, and application of sentencing guidelines in one of the first states to employ them, John Kramer and Jeffery Ulmer offer a nuanced analysis of the complexities involved in administering justice.
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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

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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 the concerns of local courts shape sentencing under guidelines? In this comprehensive examination of the development, reform, and application of sentencing guidelines in one of the first states to employ them, John Kramer and Jeffery Ulmer offer a nuanced analysis of the complexities involved in administering justice.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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