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Effect of Gender and Family Status on Downward Departures in Federal Criminal Sentences

Date Published

June 2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Judicial Intervention in Court Cases Involving Witnesses with and Without Learning Disabilities

NCJ Number

202690

Journal

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Date Published

September 2003

Judicial Discretion in Sentencing (From Exercising Discretion: Decisionmaking in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond, P 50-73, 2003, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nicola Padfield, eds. -- See NCJ-202489)

NCJ Number

202491

Date Published

2003

Youth Justice: Discretion in Pre-court Decisionmaking (From Exercising Discretion: Decisionmaking in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond, P 29-49, 2003, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nicola Padfield, eds. -- See NCJ-202489)

NCJ Number

202490

Date Published

2003

Exercising Discretion: Decisionmaking in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond

NCJ Number

202489

Date Published

2003

Dead Time: And the Winner Is?

NCJ Number

202302

Journal

Canadian Police Chief Magazine

Date Published

2003

Evaluation of the Virginia Exile Program, Final Report

NCJ Number

202301

Date Published

July 2003

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PDF

Wife Abuse, Child Custody and Access in Canada (From The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children, P 253-275, 2003, Robert A. Geffner, Robyn S. Igelman, and Jennifer Zellner, eds. -- See NCJ-202075)

NCJ Number

202086

Date Published

2003

Key Legislative Issues in Criminal Justice: The Impact of Sentencing Guidelines

Date Published

November 1996

Series

NIJ Research in Action

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ

Sentencing Methodology: Two-tiered or Instinctive Synthesis?

NCJ Number

201993

Date Published

December 2002

Violence Against Women: Synthesis of Research for Judges

NCJ Number

199911

Date Published

December 2000

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Prison and Jail Overcrowding Commission, 2003 Annual Report

NCJ Number

201596

Date Published

2003

Publication Link

PDF

Process Evaluation of Recent Juvenile Transfer Statutes in Virginia, Volume I Final Report

Date Published

2001

Series

NIJ Research Report

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Fifteen Years After the Federal Sentencing Revolution: How Mandatory Minimums Have Undermined Effective and Just Narcotics Sentencing

NCJ Number

200448

Journal

American Criminal Law Review

Date Published

2003

Life Terms or Death Sentences: The Uneasy Relationship Between Judicial Elections and Capital Punishment

NCJ Number

200173

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2002

Punishment Myth: Understanding the Criminal Mind and When and Why Conventional Wisdom Fails

NCJ Number

200050

Date Published

January 2003

Impact of "Strikes" in Sentencing Decisions: Punishment for Only Some Habitual Offenders

NCJ Number

200044

Journal

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Date Published

March 2003

Hard Choices or Obvious Ones: Developing Policy for Excluding Youth From Juvenile Court

NCJ Number

200082

Journal

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Date Published

April 2003

Three Strikes and You're Out: The Implementation and Impact of Strike Laws

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

At the Junction of Cultures -- Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Light of Other International Interpreting Practices

NCJ Number

198225

Journal

Judicial Review

Date Published

2001

Absconding on Bail

NCJ Number

198297

Date Published

May 2002

Downward Departures for Serious Violent Offenders: Local Court "Corrections" to Pennsylvania's Sentencing Guidelines

NCJ Number

198026

Journal

Criminology

Date Published

November 2002

Villain or Victim: Regional Variation and Ethnic Disparity in Federal Drug Offense Sentencing

NCJ Number

198010

Journal

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Date Published

December 2002

Women, Race, and Criminal Justice Processing (From Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Original Feminist Readings, P 222-231, 2001, Claire Renzetti and Lynne Goodstein, eds. -- See NCJ-197570)

NCJ Number

197584

Date Published

2001

Judging by Heuristic: Cognitive Illusions in Judicial Decision Making

NCJ Number

197383

Journal

Judicature

Date Published

July 2002