| 书目名称 | The Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing |
| 编辑 | Martha A. Myers,Susette M. Talarico |
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| 丛书名称 | Research in Criminology |
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| 描述 | Historically, the announcement and invocation of criminal penalties were public spectacles. Today, fear of crime and disaffection with the criminal justice system guarantee that this public fascination with punishment continues. In the past decade, virtually every legislature in the country has undertaken sentencing reform, in the hope that public concern with crime would be allayed and dispari ties in criminal sentences would be reduced if not eliminated. Scholars have intensified their longstanding preoccupation with discrimination and the sources of disparate treatment during sentencing - issues that continue to fuel contem porary reform efforts. As documented in Chapter 1, empirical research on sen tencing has concentrated much of its attention on the offender. Only recently have attempts been made to imbed sentencing in its broader organizational and social contexts. Our study extends these attempts by quantitatively analyzing the relationship between the offender and the social contexts in which he or she is sentenced. We use data on felony sentencing in Georgia between 1976 and 1985 to ask three questions. The first addresses an issue of perennial concern: during sentenci |
| 出版日期 | Book 1987 |
| 关键词 | Crime; Criminal Justice; attention |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4732-6 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-9132-9 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4612-4732-6Series ISSN 1431-7540 |
| issn_series | 1431-7540 |
| copyright | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1987 |
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