Journal article
MODEL MISSPECIFICATION: WHY AGGREGATION OF OFFENSES IN FEDERAL SENTENCING EQUATIONS IS PROBLEMATIC
Criminology (Beverly Hills), Vol.41(4), pp.1449-1456
11/2003
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2003.tb01027.x
Abstract
This paper addresses two concerns that arise from Steffensmeier and Demuth (2001) analysis of federal sentencing and their misrepresentation of my analyses of sentence severity (Albonetti, 1997). My primary concern is to alert researchers to the importance of controlling for the guidelines offense that drives the sentencing process under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. My second concern is to correct Steffensmeier and Demuth's (2001) errors in interpretation of my earlier findings of the effect of guidelines offense severity on length of imprisonment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- MODEL MISSPECIFICATION: WHY AGGREGATION OF OFFENSES IN FEDERAL SENTENCING EQUATIONS IS PROBLEMATIC
- Creators
- CELESTA A. Albonetti - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Criminology (Beverly Hills), Vol.41(4), pp.1449-1456
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2003.tb01027.x
- ISSN
- 0011-1384
- eISSN
- 1745-9125
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2003
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306246502771
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