NCJ Number
176826
Date Published
1997
Length
293 pages
Annotation
This book examines sentencing of offenders appearing on multiple offenses and how judges, after fixing a prison sentence for each offense, determine an overall sentence.
Abstract
The book analyzes judges' verbal protocols for sentencing problems and sentences for fictitious cases. It also offers a model of judicial sentencing in the form of a decision strategy comprising working rules deduced from the given responses of judges as they attempted to apply sentencing law; and a numerical guideline in the form of an algebraic model quantifying the application of the working rules. The book also includes chapters on testing the decision model for multiple disparate counts; the techniques of data collection; judges' thoughts on sentencing the multiple offender; validity, development and data collection for an alternative decision model; towards a requisite decision model for sentencing the multiple offender; and the armature of judicial sentencing. Figures, tables, appendix, references, index