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Literature of the Americas, 2023 The nature, history and transformation of the American sentence in XX century American fiction is the focus of the current essay which examines the shift from the oracular to ordinary style. This is the contrast between Henry James and Ernest Hemingway, or Thomas Wolfe and Cormac McCarthy. It is a shift in tone and syntax from an elaborate rhetoric and
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Judicial Discretion and Sentencing Behavior [PDF]
This research studies the impact of changes to federal judicial discretion on criminal sentencing outcomes. The Feeney Amendment to the 2003 PROTECT Act restricted federal judges’ ability to impose sentences outside of the U.S.
Freeborn, Beth, Hartmann, Monica
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DANGEROUS CONDITION OF A PERSON IN CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN MODERN CRIMINAL LAW
Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022 Authors shows us, that term «dangerous condition of a person» is still actual, also there's given its meaning, shown factors that can lead person to become condition that is dangerous for ...
Diana D. Bersey, Sergei A. Ivanov
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A quick guide to sentencing [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: outlines how Victorian courts (judges and magistrates) decide which sentence to impose on offenders. When sentencing offenders, a court decides what consequences offenders will face for what they have done.
Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
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The challenges of being imperfect: how do judges and prosecutors deal with sentencing disparity
Frontiers in SociologyLegal decision-making aspires to be objective, a principle regarded as foundational to justice, public trust, and the legitimacy of legal outcomes.
Mojca M. Plesničar
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Effects of free will belief on moral and judicial judgment
Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2019 The present study examined whether people's beliefs in free will affect their moral and judicial judgment. Specifically, using a survey method, we examined the mediation by moral judgment which has been theoretically discussed and illustrated in a ...
Iori Kasahara +2 more
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“COVID Justice”: Criminal Law’s Pandemic and Mundane Punishment in Canada’s Capital
Canadian Journal of Law and SocietyProcesses of repression, criminalization and penalization were importantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mobilizing data produced through an ethnographic study of plea courts in Ottawa, this article reports on the ways in which lower criminal courts
Nicolas Carrier +1 more
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The Strategies, Complexities, and Realities of Zero Prison Population Growth
Social Sciences, 2017 Although there is general consensus that growth in the prison population should be reversed, there is little agreement on how to achieve this goal.
Evelyn J. Patterson
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The Theory of Punishment and the Practice of Criminal Justice
Gdańskie Studia PrawniczePenal studies in contemporary Poland are dominated by dogmatic analysis. Penology, understood as an interdisciplinary area of research on criminal punishment and other legal and social reactions to acts prohibited under the threat of punishment, does not
Barbara Stańdo-Kawecka
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Criminal-Legal System Actors’ Practices and Views on Day Fines
Kriminologie - Das Online-Journal, 2019 To date, no empirical studies have examined how judges and prosecutors set day fine amounts in the German criminal-legal system. Day fines provide a systematic way to set monetary sanctions with the intended result of more equality among people with ...
Mitali Nagrecha, Nicole Bögelein
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