Journal article
Prosecutorial Discretion to Defer Criminalization: The Effects of Defendant's Ascribed and Achieved Status Characteristics
Journal of quantitative criminology, Vol.12(1), pp.63-81
03/01/1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF02354471
Abstract
Considers how tenets of casual attribution theory & etiology of bias theory inform an uncertainty avoidance perspective on prosecutorial decisions to divert felony drug defendants from criminal prosecution & into treatment programs. The sociolegal consequences of the exercise of this early screening decision are expressed by both conflict theorists & labeling theorists. Analysis here involves estimating main & interaction effects of defendant ascribed & achieved status on the likelihood of diversion. Analysis of the dispositions of 5,554 prosecutable felony drug cases in Phoeniz, AZ, indicates partial support for hypotheses derived from the theoretical perspectives pursued. In addition, these findings point to a more complex model of the subjective nature of the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, a model that benefits from understanding the salience of minimizing uncertainty in the decision to criminalize rather than divert. 5 Tables, 1 Appendix, 43 References. Adapted from the source document.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Prosecutorial Discretion to Defer Criminalization: The Effects of Defendant's Ascribed and Achieved Status Characteristics
- Creators
- Celesta Albonetti - Texas A&M UniversityJohn Hepburn - Arizona State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of quantitative criminology, Vol.12(1), pp.63-81
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF02354471
- ISSN
- 0748-4518
- eISSN
- 1573-7799
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1996
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984306245202771
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