Extralegal factors and the sentencing of
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Nicole Leeper Piquero; Jason L. Davis
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The Federal Sentencing Guidelines were developed to provide uniform and standardized punishments for eliminating sentence disparities based on legally irrelevant factors. While research at the individual level showed that extralegal factors continued to affect sentence outcomes, no such research det