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Document Type

Research Paper

Abstract

The relative influence of legal and extra-legal factors on sentence recommendations were analyzed in a sample of 153 pre-sentence investigations for felony drug offenders. I adhere to a consensus approach by hypothesis that the legal variables are more associated with the sentence recommendation than the extra-legal variables of race, gender, and employment status. This hypothesis was tested by crosstabulation, zero-order correlation, and multiple regression. Behavior while on pre-trial release, employment status, the type of felony, prior record, and a history of similar arrests were found to be the most significant correlates to the sentence recommendation.

Publication Date

1996

Journal Title

Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference

Volume

1

Issue

1

First Page

58

Last Page

70

Copyright

©1996 by the University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Publisher

University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

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