Persistent Offender Law
Subtitle: Racial Disparity, Patterned Offenses, and Unintended Effects (Criminal Justice (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing; LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: March 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781931202541
Subjects: Social Science; Recidivists; Legal Reference / Law Profession; United States; Sociology; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Criminal Law - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Criminology; Discrimination & Racism; Preventive detention; Race relations
First sentence: The connection between sentencing policies and criminal conduct has been the subject of substantial research and scholarly inquiry (Blumstein, 1996; Crawford, Chiricos, &amp; Kleck, 1998; Dilulio, 1991; Tonry, 1996; Zimring &amp; Hawkins, 1991; Zimring, Hawkins, &amp; Kamin, 2001).