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Conviction According To Conscience: The Medieval Jurists' Debate Concerning Judicial Discretion And The Law Of Proof, Richard M. Fraher Jan 1989

Conviction According To Conscience: The Medieval Jurists' Debate Concerning Judicial Discretion And The Law Of Proof, Richard M. Fraher

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The Supreme Court's New Vision Of Federal Habeas Corpus For State Prisoners, Joseph L. Hoffmann Jan 1989

The Supreme Court's New Vision Of Federal Habeas Corpus For State Prisoners, Joseph L. Hoffmann

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On The Perils Of Line-Drawing: Juveniles And The Death Penalty, Joseph L. Hoffmann Jan 1989

On The Perils Of Line-Drawing: Juveniles And The Death Penalty, Joseph L. Hoffmann

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Negotiated Pleas Under The Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The First Fifteen Months, Ilene H. Nagel, Stephen J. Schulhofer Jan 1989

Negotiated Pleas Under The Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The First Fifteen Months, Ilene H. Nagel, Stephen J. Schulhofer

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Criminal Justice Decision Making As A Stratification Process: The Role Of Race And Stratification Resources In Pretrial Release, Ilene H. Nagel, Celesta A. Albonetti, Robert M. Hauser, John Hagan Jan 1989

Criminal Justice Decision Making As A Stratification Process: The Role Of Race And Stratification Resources In Pretrial Release, Ilene H. Nagel, Celesta A. Albonetti, Robert M. Hauser, John Hagan

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Our purpose is to bridge the criminal justice and stratification research literatures and to pursue the argument that homologous structural principles stratify allocation processes across central institutions of American society. The principle observed here in the making of bail decisions, as in earlier studies of the allocation of earnings, is that stratification resources operate to the greater advantage of whites than blacks. The operation of this principle is established through the estimation of covariance structure models of pretrial release decisions affecting 5660 defendants in 10 federal courts. Education and income are treated in this study as observed components of a …