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Effects of Determinant Sentencing on Institutional Climate and Prison Administration: Connecticut, Minnesota, Illinois, 1981-1983

(9 datasets; 7,200 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Goodstein, Lynne; Kramer, John H.; Hepburn, John R.; MacKenzie, Doris L.

Summary: This data collection examines the effects of determinant sentencing on prison climate and administration. Three data collection periods are covered in the dataset. Parts 1-3 contain data taken from a total random sample of offenders housed at five prisons over all three data collection periods. Part 4 is an additional sample from the state of Connecticut of inmates serving determinate sentences, collected during the third period of data collection. Parts 5 and 6 comprise indeterminate sam... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08278.v1

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