The rules have changed - so proceed with caution: a comment on Engen and Gainey's method for modeling sentencing outcomes under guidelines

Article Abstract:

Criminologists Rodney Engen and Randy Gainey have discussed offense severity and prior records as nonlinear, nonadditive variables in determining sentencing lenth according to established guidelines. They offer an alternative method for measuring the influence of guidelines on sentencing: the actual presumptive sentence recommendation. Using Pennsylavania sentencing data the author discusses the limitations of Engen and Gainey's sentencing model.

Statistical Data Included, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Judgments, Criminal, Criminal judgments

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Comment on Paternoster and Brame

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The author responds to an earlier article discussing the relationship between childhood self-control and adolescent criminal behavior. The correlation between self-control and criminal behavior is found to be less significant than originally conceived.

Self-control, Self control

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AN ALTERNATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

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Topics include stimulus control of behavior, crime and personality organization, alternative psychologies, self control, situational specificity of behavior, environmental consistencies, and life-course criminology.

Science & research, Public affairs, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Methods, Study and teaching, Behavior modification, Criminal behaviour, Behaviour modification

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