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Offenders in Criminal and Juvenile Courts - A Comparison of Charging and Sentencing Practices
Maine Rejects Indeterminacy - A Case Study of Flat Sentencing and Parole Abolition
North Carolina's Determinate Sentencing Legislation: An Evaluation of the First Year's Experience, Executive Summary, Discussion Draft
Classification, Prediction, and Criminal Justice Policy
Assessing the Impact of Plea Bargaining on Subsequent Violence for Firearm Offenders
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ALIENATION IN THE PRISON SOCIETY - AN EMPIRICAL TEST
Redesigning Life in U.S. Prisons
The prison system in the U.S. typically places a heavy emphasis on security, control, and punishment, and this foundation can create an adversarial culture within correctional facilities — incarcerated individuals versus correctional staff. But what if that culture could change? What would it look like? How would it impact not only incarcerated individuals but also correctional officers and other staff?
Incarceration and Desistance: Evidence from a Natural Policy Experiment
Circumventing the Sentencing Grid: Encouraging Downward Departures in Presumptive Prison Cases
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities
Contextual Influences on the Sentencing of Individuals Convicted of Sexual Crimes
The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes
Booker and Beyond Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions
This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.
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Multilevel Evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a DOJ-sponsored initiative to reduce violent crime, particularly gun crime, by fostering cooperation by criminal justice agencies and local partners to develop and implement strategic approaches.
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