Courtroom workgroups and sentencing: The effects of similarity, proximity, and stability

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-161

  Haynes, Stacy Hoskins ^a   Ruback, Barry ^a   Cusick, Gretchen Ruth ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Courtroom workgroups; Economic sanctions; Incarceration; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049131868     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128707313787     Document Type: Article

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