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Mears, D. P. (1998). The Sociology of Sentencing: Reconceptualizing Decisionmaking Processes and Outcomes. Law & Society Review. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1460062236
Research on juvenile and adult sentencing has been characterized by theoretical, methodological, and empirical limitations that preclude adequate description, prediction, or assessment of decision making processes and outcomes. Five limitations are prominent: emphasis upon atheoretical, empirical attempts, generally unsuccessful, to increase predictive accuracy; limited conceptualizations of dependent variables (e.g., incarceration versus non-incarceration); overreliance upon individual, offender-level data with minimal reference to victims, practitioners, or contextual factors; failure to incorporate analytically multiple research methods; and inattention to intended and unintended uses and effects of sentencing. These limitations can be highlighted by focusing on a context, juvenile justice, in which the goals of sentencing are varied, conflicting, and, due to recent reforms, changing. Using interview and survey data, the present research examines juvenile sentencing reform in Texas to highlight these limitations and to outline an analytical framework for improved description, modeling, and assessment of sentencing.
Identifier
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1460062236
Language
English
Mears, D. P. (1998). The Sociology of Sentencing: Reconceptualizing Decisionmaking Processes and Outcomes. Law & Society Review. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1460062236