"Back-end sentencing" and reimprisonment: Individual, organizational, and community predictors of parole sanctioning decisions

Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 759-795

  Lin, Jeffrey ^a   Grattet, Ryken ^b   Petersilia, Joan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal concerns; Hierarchical modeling; Parolees; Race and ethnicity; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955744799     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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