Impact of the No Early Release Act (NERA) on Prosecution and Sentencing in New Jersey, 1996-2000 / Candace McCoy, Patrick McManimonJr.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

McCoy, Candace.

McManimon, Patrick, Jr.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4178.

ICPSR ; 4178

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This study examined New Jersey's No Early Release Act (NERA), which became effective in 1997. NERA required that offenders convicted of violent crimes serve at least 85 percent of their sentences before becoming eligible for parole. This study's primary goal was to determine whether prosecutors changed their charging and plea bargaining practices in order to obtain sentences under NERA that were roughly equivalent to those imposed before NERA. Data were obtained from the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts for 1996 to May 2000. These data included every case in which a crime covered by the No Early Release Act was charged and, for comparison, every case involving a burglary charge, a charge not covered by NERA. These data cover defendants' progress through the New Jersey court system, including the initial charge, indictment, and sentencing.

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-07-25.

Start: 1996; and end: 2000.

OCLC:

70890326

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