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Discretion and Disparity under Sentencing Guidelines Revisited: The Interrelationship between Structured Sentencing Alternatives and Guideline Decision-making

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2020
Objectives: We argue that the reasons court actors conform to or depart from sentencing guideline recommendations likely vary depending on whether the decision involves an alternative sanction or incarceration and that these reasons may have consequences
Noah Painter-Davis, Jeffery Ulmer
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Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research

Justice Quarterly, 2012
Jeffery Ulmer
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Gender and Sentencing in the Federal Courts

Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2014
Stephen Demuth, Jill K Doerner
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SENTENCING IN CONTEXT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS

Criminology, 2004
Jeffery Ulmer
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Reassessing and Redirecting Research on Race and Sentencing

Justice Quarterly, 2013
E. Baumer
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Criminal Courts as Inhabited Institutions: Making Sense of Difference and Similarity in Sentencing

Crime and justice, 2019
An inhabited institutions perspective views institutions from the bottom up, as “inhabited” by individual and organizational actors who have agency, rather than as static, top-down structures.
Jeffery T. Ulmer
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Focally Concerned About Focal Concerns: A Conceptual and Methodological Critique of Sentencing Disparities Research

Justice quarterly, 2019
“Focal concerns” is the predominant theoretical framework in criminology for explaining disparities in sentencing outcomes. While the framework has generated a large body of empirical scholarship, its postulates remain inadequately tested in the ...
Mona Lynch
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Have Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Declined?

Crime and justice, 2019
Blacks and Hispanics convicted of felonies are more likely than whites to receive prison sentences for their crimes, and they receive slightly longer sentences if imprisoned.
Ryan D. King, Michael T. Light
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Applying Moral Foundations Theory to the Explanation of Capital Jurors’ Sentencing Decisions

Justice quarterly, 2019
This study applies moral foundations theory to capital juror decision making. We hypothesized that binding moral foundations would predict death qualification and punitive sentencing decisions, whereas individualizing moral foundations would be ...
T. Vaughan, Lisa Bell Holleran, Jason R. Silver   +2 more
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