Sentencing under the federal sentencing guidelines: Effects of defendant characteristics, guilty pleas, and departures on sentence outcomes for drug offenses, 1991-1992

Law and Society Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 789-822

  Albonetti, Celesta A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3053987     Document Type: Article

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