How Do Judges Decide? : the Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment.

Author/creator Spohn, Cassia
Format Electronic
Publication InfoThousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Description1 online resource (377 pages)
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects

Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 -- The Goals of Sentencing; 2 -- The Sentencing Process; 3 -- How Do Judges Decides?; 4 -- Sentencing Disparity and Discrimination: A Focus on Gender; 5 -- Sentencing Disparity and Discrimination: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity; 6 -- The Sentencing Reform Movement; 7 -- The Impact of Sentencing Reforms; References; Index.
Abstract This new edition has updated statistics and new research and case laws, as well as additional material on the prosecutor's role in sentencing and speciality courts.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Spohn, Cassia C. (Cathleen). How Do Judges Decide? : The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, ©2008 9781412961042
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781483302119 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1483302113 (electronic bk.)

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