Sentencing guidelines
Subtitle: lessons from Pennsylvania
By: John H. Kramer, Jeffery T. Ulmer.
Contributors: Ulmer, Jeffery T., 1966-
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781588265999
Subjects: Pennsylvania. -- Commission on Sentencing -- History; Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Pennsylvania; Prison sentences -- Pennsylvania; Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding sentencing; title: Constructing Pennsylvania's sentencing guidelines; title: Pennsylvania's Commission meets new challenges; title: Sentencing serious violent offenders; title: Racial, ethnic, and gender disparity; title: Location matters : variation among counties; title: Guilty pleas vs. trial convictions : unwarranted disparity; title: Guidelines and mandatory minimums; title: Can guidelines change sentencing practices?; title: Lessons from Pennsylvania's struggle for justice.