Predicting offender-generated exchange rates: Implications for a theory of sentence severity

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-399

  May, David C ^a   Wood, Peter B ^b   Mooney, Jennifer L ^c   Minor, Kevin I ^a  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum of sanctions; Perceptions of alternative sanctions; Perceptions of prison severity; Prison exchange rates; Sentencing; Theory of sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744435123     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128704271459     Document Type: Article

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