Variables influencing sentencing severity: Intercourt differences in Connecticut |
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Authors: | Marc G. Gertz Albert C. Price |
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Affiliation: | School of Criminology The Florida State University Tallahasee, Florida 32306, USA;Department of Political Science The University of Michigan—Flint Flint, Michigan 48502, USA |
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Abstract: | Studies of criminal-court dispositions have traditionally aggregated courts along political and geographic boundaries. This article suggests that courts should be analyzed individually, even within the same jurisdiction, as a means of increasing the explanatory capacity of the variables involved. Further, it is contended that intercourt differences are a result of organizational influences operating within each court. |
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