Modeling the politics of punishment: A c
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Ronald Helms
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The empirical sentencing literature has focused intensively on racial equity concerns, but this research added to the literature by analyzing political-contextual sources of punishment. This study developed a functional model of court decision making and used ordinal logit to assess court punishment