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The Race of Defendants and Victims in Pennsylvania Death Penalty Decisions: 2000-2010 by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Kramer, John H., Zajac, Gary

“…This study uses propensity score weighting to examine three key death penalty decisions in Pennsylvania from 2000-2010, focusing on the role of defendant and…”
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THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF GUIDELINES CIRCUMVENTION: THE CASE OF FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS by JOHNSON, BRIAN D., ULMER, JEFFERY T., KRAMER, JOHN H.

“…Recent scholarship on criminal punishments increasingly highlights the importance of courtroom social contexts. Combining recent data from the U.S. Sentencing…”
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Geographic arbitrariness? County court variation in capital prosecution and sentencing in Pennsylvania by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Zajac, Gary, Kramer, John H.

“…Research Summary The death penalty remains one of the most controversial issues of criminal punishment not only because of racial/ethnic disparities, wrongful…”
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Prosecutorial Discretion and the Imposition of Mandatory Minimum Sentences by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Kurlychek, Megan C., Kramer, John H.

“…In Pennsylvania, the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences presents an important opportunity to examine relatively “pure” prosecutorial discretion over…”
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Racial disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision: An alternative analysis to the USSC's 2010 report by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Light, Michael T., Kramer, John H.

“…The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Booker and a joint case United States v. Fanfan (2005, hereafter Booker and Fanfan, respectively) that the…”
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DOWNWARD DEPARTURES FOR SERIOUS VIOLENT OFFENDERS: LOCAL COURT “CORRECTIONS” TO PENNSYLVANIA'S SENTENCING GUIDELINES by KRAMER, JOHN H., ULMER, JEFFERY T.

“…We examine downward departures for serious violent offenders, using quantitative and qualitative data from Pennsylvania. We find that offense severity and…”
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Closing the Revolving Door?: Substance Abuse Treatment as an Alternative to Traditional Sentencing for Drug-Dependent Offenders by Warner, Tara D., Kramer, John H.

“…The criminal justice system is often viewed as a revolving door for drug-dependent offenders due to its failure to recognize the association between addiction…”
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COURT COMMUNITIES UNDER SENTENCING GUIDELINES: DILEMMAS OF FORMAL RATIONALITY AND SENTENCING DISPARITY by ULMER, JEFFERY T., KRAMER, JOHN H.

“…Efforts to structure sentencing through guidelines involve a fundamental dilemma for the sociology of law—guidelines attempt to emphasize formal rationality…”
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines: The framing of justice by Kramer, John H.

“…Kramer asks why the sentencing reform movement has yielded such a small effect. He identifies several issues he believes help account for the limited amount of…”
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Racial disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Light, Michael T., Kramer, John H.

“…The U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) released a report in March 2010 concluding that disparity in federal sentencing has increased in the wake of the U.S…”
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Sentencing disparity and departures from guidelines by Kramer, John H., Ulmer, Jeffery T.

“…Unwarranted sentencing disparity, a long-standing concern for sociologists studying criminal sentencing, helped to stimulate reforms of sentencing such as…”
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The Use and Transformation of Formal Decision-Making Criteria: Sentencing Guidelines, Organizational Contexts, and Case Processing Strategies by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Kramer, John H.

“…Recent sociological research in organizations has emphasized the "filtering" of externally-imposed formal policies and rules through local organizational…”
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Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan . By John Hagan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+301. $29.95 by Kramer, John H.

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Offender Characteristics and the Purposes of Sentencing by Kramer, John H.

“…Whether characteristics other than criminal history should play a greater role in deciding sentences; recommends that the US Sentencing Commission reevaluate…”
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Divergent paths to federal and Pennsylvania sentencing guideline reforms by Kramer, John H

“…[...]began the movement to create guided judicial discretion. In response to growing crime rates in the 1960s and 1970s, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater…”
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines: The framing of justice : Structured sentencing and extralegal disparities by KRAMER, John H

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Sentencing guidelines: A quantitative comparison of sentencing policies in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Washington by Kramer, John H., Lubitz, Robin L., Kempinen, Cynthia A.

“…During the past decade, several states established special commissions to develop sentencing guidelines. This article employs a simulation methodology to…”
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The Use and Transformation of Formal Decision-Making Criteria: Sentencing Guidelines, Organizational Contexts, and Case Processing Strategies by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Kramer, John H.

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Overview of: "Racial disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Light, Michael T., Kramer, John H.

“…Research Summary The U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) released a report in March 2010 concluding that disparity in federal sentencing has increased in the…”
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Overview of: “Racial disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision: An alternative analysis to the USSC's 2010 report by Ulmer, Jeffery T., Light, Michael T., Kramer, John H.

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