NCJ Number
93063
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1983) Pages: 21-34
Date Published
1983
Length
14 pages
Annotation
A variety of characteristics of the defendant, the case, and the court potentially could affect judicial sentences.
Abstract
Building on a recently published method for scaling the seriousness of the crimes and the severity of sentences, this paper describes procedures for investigating factors affecting sentence severity. An empirical example illustrates the procedures, as well as the problems of interpretation and analysis that arise in statistical studies of sentencing. (Publisher abstract)