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Evaluation of Minnesota's Felony Sentencing Guidelines, 1978-1984
This data collection gauges the effects of the Minnesota
felony sentencing guidelines on prosecutional charging practices, plea
negotiations, and sentencing decisions. The collection provides
primary sources for evaluating the statewide changes in the
determinants of charging and sentencing decisions after the sentencing
guidelines were enacted. The statewide defendants file (Part 2)
contains information on the offender's demographic characteristics
(age, sex, race, and marital and employment status), year of
disposition, descriptions of the convicted offense, criminal history
score, type of sentence imposed, the presumptive disposition and
duration of confinement, dispositional location in the sentencing grid
of the guidelines, and types of dispositional departure from
presumptive sentences. Variables in the eight-county sample data (Part
1) are similar to those available in the statewide data. However, the
county sample data contain additional information on characteristics
of cases and case processing variables such as whether the defendant
was convicted of multiple behavioral incidents and various types of
plea bargaining.
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Evaluation of Minnesota's Felony Sentencing Guidelines, 1978-1984
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| description | This data collection gauges the effects of the Minnesota felony sentencing guidelines on prosecutional charging practices, plea negotiations, and sentencing decisions. The collection provides primary sources for evaluating the statewide changes in the determinants of charging and sentencing decisions after the sentencing guidelines were enacted. The statewide defendants file (Part 2) contains information on the offender's demographic characteristics (age, sex, race, and marital and employment status), year of disposition, descriptions of the convicted offense, criminal history score, type of sentence imposed, the presumptive disposition and duration of confinement, dispositional location in the sentencing grid of the guidelines, and types of dispositional departure from presumptive sentences. Variables in the eight-county sample data (Part 1) are similar to those available in the statewide data. However, the county sample data contain additional information on characteristics of cases and case processing variables such as whether the defendant was convicted of multiple behavioral incidents and various types of plea bargaining. |
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| title | Evaluation of Minnesota's Felony Sentencing Guidelines, 1978-1984 |
