Legal and Extralegal Factors Influencing Judge's Penal Decisions
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In this article, the authors identify legal and extralegal factors that might influence judges' penal decision in criminal cases and determine how the imposed penalties effect on prisons overcrowding, on ensuring public safety protection, as well as on solving related problems faced by offenders.About:
This article is published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.The article was published on 2013-05-13 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Judicial opinion.read more
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Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparison Between Incarcerated and Community Offenders.
TL;DR: A hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the use of weapons and objects increased the probability of IPV perpetrators belonging to the prison group above and beyond sociodemographic variables.
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A quantitative evaluation of judicial justice in civil cases with Chinese free trade zone enterprises as the plaintiff
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the judicial process in free trade zones and found that judicial justice has not given way to economic efficiencies, such as attracting foreign investment, in cases with Chinese free trade zone enterprises acting as the plaintiff.
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Mental Illness as a Sentencing Determinant: A Comparative Case Law Analysis Based on a Machine Learning Approach
TL;DR: This article identified factors that contribute to sentencing outcomes for criminally sentenced individuals experiencing mental disorders, in two U.S. states with divergent sociopolitical ideologies, including New York and Kansas.
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The impact of legal and extra-legal factors on severity of judges sentencing regarding narcotics offenders
TL;DR: In this paper , the recidivism factors among drug offenders were investigated and the utilization of ordinary least squares (log-level regression) was used to explain how judge sentencing varies as a response to the legal and extralegal factors of drug offenders.
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