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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Policies and Cocaine Use in the U.S., 1985–2013 [PDF]
, 2018 Background: As of May 2017, the United States federal government renewed its prioritization for the enforcement of mandatory minimum sentences for illicit drug offenses.
Mezuk, Briana, Walker, Lauryn Saxe
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Conceptions and representations of the sentencing decision process [PDF]
, 1997 This article attempts to reflect on the success of attempts by academic research to understand and explain the sentencing decision process. It identifies conventional themes in the conception and representation of that decision process and argues that ...
Tata, Cyrus
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Politics and Strategy in Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from federal human trafficking sentencing [PDF]
, 2020 This thesis investigates the effects of judicial ideology and judge characteristics on sentencing in human trafficking cases. Despite research on federal prosecutions of human trafficking, almost nothing is known about sentencing for federal human ...
Wu, Henry
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Sentence to Sentence Similarity. A Review
, 2019 This paper suggests a novel sentence-to-sentence similarity measure. The proposal makes use of both word embedding and named-entity based semantic similarity. This is motivated by the increasing short text phrases that contain named-entity tags and the importance to detect various levels of hidden semantic similarity even in case of high noise ratio ...
Bounab, Y. (Yazid) +4 more
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, 2014 A host of errors can occur at sentencing, but whether a particular sentencing error can be remedied may depend on whether judges characterize errors as involving a miscarriage of justice -- that is, a claim of innocence.
Garrett, Brandon L.
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A sentencing exception? Changing sentencing policy in Scotland [PDF]
, 2010 This article reviews developments in penal policy and to sentencing reform in Scotland over the last decade. The devolved government was established in 1999 following the first elections to a Scottish Parliament. Despite being part of the United Kingdom,
Hutton, Neil, Tata, Cyrus
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The prosecution of environmental offences in New Zealand [PDF]
, 2008 This paper will examine the background law regarding environmental offences under the Resource Management Act 1991 (NZ), prosecution trends, sentencing for RMA offences (including principles of sentencing, sentencing discretion, legislative guidance ...
Daya-Winterbottom, Trevor
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, 2014 Drawing on the experiences from restorative justice, this chapter advocates a model referred to as ‘stakeholder sentencing’, according to which sentencing decisions should be made collectively by those who have a stake in the penal outcomes.
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Philosophy of Medicine, 2022 There are many analogies between medical and judicial practice. This article explores one such analogy, between “medicalization” and “criminalization.” Specifically, drawing on an analogy between a judge’s speech act of delivering a verdict and a physician’s speech act of giving a diagnosis, it suggests a novel account of the phenomenon of ...
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Principles, Pragmatism, and Politics: The Evolution of Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]
, 2013 Although the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines have received much attention (and criticism), we do well to remember that the United States is a federal system, and that each of the fifty states has its own sentencing rules and procedures. Today, roughly
Stith, Kate
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