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THE MULTILEVEL CONTEXT OF CRIMINAL SENTENCING: INTEGRATING JUDGE- AND COUNTY-LEVEL INFLUENCES*
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This study extends recent inquiries of contextual effects in sentencing by jointly examining the influence of judge and courtroom social contexts. It combines two recent years of individual sentencing data from the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (PCS) with data on judicial background characteristics and county court social contexts. Three-level hierarchical models are estimated to investigate the influence of judge and county contexts on individual variations in sentencing. Results indicate that nontrivial sentencing variations are associated with both individual judge characteristics and county court contexts. Judicial background factors also condition the influence of individual offender characteristics in important ways. These and other findings are discussed in relation to contemporary theoretical perspectives on courtroom decision making that highlight the importance of both judge and court contexts in sentencing. The study concludes with suggestions for future research on contextual disparities in criminal sentencing.
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- JOHNSON, B. D.
- Venue
- Criminology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-05
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 259-298
- ISSN
- 0011-1384 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-9125
- OpenAlex
- W2157657259
- Cited by
- 357
- References
- 55
- FWCI
- 46.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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