Sentencing using statistical treatment rules: What we don't know can Hurt us

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-387

  Bushway, Shawn ^a   Smith, Jeffrey ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Profiling; Selective incarceration; Sentencing; Statistical treatment rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348900136     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-007-9035-1     Document Type: Article

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