Direct and Indirect Effects of Case Complexity, Guilty Pleas, and Offender Characteristics on Sentencing for Offenders Convicted of a White-Collar Offense Prior to Sentencing Guidelines

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-378

  Albonetti, Celesta A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal sentencing; Legal bureaucratic model; Length of imprisonment; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032245170     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023077704546     Document Type: Article

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