Measuring Inter-Judge Sentencing Disparity Before and After the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

This paper evaluated the impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on inter-jusge sentencing disparity, which is defined as the differences in average nominal prison sentence lengths for comparable caseloads assigned to different judges. This disparity is measured as the dispersion disparity os a random effect in a zero-inlfatednegative binomial model.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Anderson, J.M. ; Kling, J.R. ; Stith, K.
Institutions:	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Subject:	ECONOMIC MODELS \| LAW \| JUDGES

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Series:	Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School - Public and International Affairs.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	60 pages
Classification:	K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior ; C5 - Econometric Modeling
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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