Research on Sentencing : the Search for Reform, Volume II.

Research on Sentencing : the Search for Reform, Volume II.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staff, National Research Council
Other Authors: Blumstein, Alfred
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press, 1983.
Subjects:
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > United States > States.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > United States.
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > U.S. states
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Research on Sentencing
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1â€?Making Sense of Sentencingâ€?A Review and Critique of Sentencing Research
  • TWO INCIPIENT THEORIES OF SENTENCING
  • DEFINITIONAL PROBLEMS IN SENTENCING RESEARCH
  • METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SENTENCING RESEARCH
  • Alternative Measures of Sentence Severity
  • Sampling Problems
  • Measurement of Legitimized Influences on Criminal Sentencing
  • Measurement of Nonlegitimized Influences on Sentencing
  • Measurement of Contextual Effects
  • THE PROBLEM OF CUMULATION
  • RACE AND SENTENCING
  • Clarke and Koch (1977)Gibson (1978)
  • Hagan and Bernstein (1979)
  • Kelly (1976)
  • LaFree (1980)
  • Lizotte (1978)
  • Myers (1979)
  • Pope (1975)
  • Thomson and Zingraff (1981)
  • Unnever, Frazier, and Henretta (1980)
  • DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 2â€?Discrimination in the Criminal Justice Systemâ€?A Critical Appraisal of the Literature
  • INTRODUCTION
  • (1) The Absence of Formal Models of Processing Decisions in the Criminal Justice System
  • (2) Sample Selection Biases Resulting from Screening and Processing Decisions
  • (3) Use of Arbitrary Scales to Measure Qualitatively Different DispositionsORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER
  • THE ANALYSIS OF BINARY VARIABLES
  • SELECTION
  • Selection Bias
  • Selection Bias at Different Processing Stages of the Criminal Justice System
  • Procedures to Deal with Selection Bias
  • A MODEL OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
  • Background Discussion of the Model
  • Trial and Sentencing
  • Plea Bargaining
  • The Decision to Charge
  • The Model of the Decision to Prosecute, Plea Bargaining, and Conviction and Sentencing
  • REVIEW OF SELECTED STUDIES
  • Sample Selection BiasMixing Guilty Pleas and Trial Convictions
  • Mixing Outcomes
  • GENERALIZED MODELS OF SENTENCING
  • Two Models of Sentencing Decisions
  • Latent Variable Model of Sentencing
  • An Alternative Model of the Sentencing Decision
  • Modeling Indeterminate Sentences
  • EXPERIMENTS IN SENTENCING RESEARCH
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • Appendix
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • 3â€?The Role of Extralegal Factors in Determining Criminal Case Disposition
  • INTRODUCTION
  • EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
  • Case Disposition and Sentencing Studies(1) Seriousness of the Offense
  • (2) Prior Record
  • (3) Type of Legal Representation
  • (4) Release on Bail
  • (5) Type of Conviction
  • (6) Miscellaneous Factors
  • (7) Discriminatory or Extralegal Factors
  • The Conviction Process
  • The Plea Decision
  • Release on Bail
  • Setting of Bail
  • Choice of Legal Representation
  • The Charge Decision
  • The Decision to Prosecute
  • Summary of the Major Findings
  • BIASES INDUCED BY MEASUREMENT ERROR AND OMITTED VARIABLES

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