Variables Influencing Sentencing Severity - Intercourt Differences in Connecticut

• NCJ Number: 97458
• Journal: Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 13 Issue: 2 Dated: (1985) Pages: 131-139
• Author(s): M G Gertz; A C Price
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 9 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
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Annotation

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 variable involved.

Abstract

Further, it is contended that intercourt differences are a result of organizational influences operating within each court. (Author abstract)