ORGANIZATIONAL CONFORMITY AND PUNISHMENT: FEDERAL COURT COMMUNITIES AND JUDGE-INITIATED GUIDELINES DEPARTURES

The U. S. Sentencing Guidelines represent a uniform set of formal rules that are implemented across a broad range of diverse social contexts. Drawing from neo-institutional theory and kindred perspectives on criminal courts, we argue that the federal courts represent an organizational field in which...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of criminal law & criminology 2017-03, Vol.107 (2), p.253-292
Hauptverfasser: ULMER, JEFFERY T., JOHNSON, BRIAN D.
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