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Sentencing guidelines : lessons from Pennsylvania / John H. Kramer, Jeffery T. Ulmer.
LIBRA KFP583.2 .K73 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, John H., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania. Commission on Sentencing.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Pennsylvania.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure).
- Prison sentences--Pennsylvania.
- Prison sentences.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Social aspects--Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania. Commission on Sentencing--History.
- Pennsylvania.
- History.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
- Contents:
- Understanding sentencing
- Constructing Pennsylvania's sentencing guidelines
- Pennsylvania's Commission meets new challenges
- Sentencing serious violent offenders
- Racial, ethnic, and gender disparity
- Location matters : variation among counties
- Guilty pleas vs. trial convictions : unwarranted disparity
- Guidelines and mandatory minimums
- Can guidelines change sentencing practices?
- Lessons from Pennsylvania's struggle for justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781588265999
- 1588265994
- OCLC:
- 214282565
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