Rodney L Engen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodney L Engen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodney L |
| FAMILY NAME | Engen |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 282 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Racial disparity in the wake of Booker/Fanfan Making sense of “messy” results and other challenges for sentencing research
Assessing determinate and presumptive sentencing—Making research relevant
Images of Danger and Culpability
In this paper we argue that the meaning of race in criminal justice decision making will vary depending on other offender and offense characteristics, and that differences in treatment within races may therefore be as large as differences between races. We find that, among adult drug offenders from Washington State, those white offenders who most closely resemble the stereotype of a dangerous drug offender receive significantly harsher treatment …
Discretion and Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines
This article examines the use of alternative sentencing provisions as mechanisms for departing from sentencing guidelines in Washington State and as structural sources of unwarranted sentencing disparity. The authors argue that these structural features of guidelines not only serve as “windows of discretion” through which disparities arise, but they also may encourage disparities by requiring consideration of substantive criteria that disadvantag…
Racial Disparities in the Punishment of Youth
Findings from research on racial disparities in juvenile justice outcomes are mixed and the causes of minority overrepresentation in juvenile justice remain unclear. This study systematically examines the relationship between theories of disparity in juvenile justice, methodological characteristics of studies, and findings regarding the effects of race in the existing empirical literature. The results indicate that several theoretically derived m…
Conceptualizing Legally Relevant Factors Under Guidelines
Modeling the Effects of Legally Relevant and Extralegal Factors Under Sentencing Guidelines
Studies of sentencing in jurisdictions with sentencing guidelines have generally failed to specify adequately the effects of offense seriousness and criminal history—the principal factors that, by law, should determine sentencing decisions. As a result, the explanatory power of those models is seriously limited, and regression coefficients representing both legal and extralegal factors may be biased. We present an alternative approach to specify …
The Power to Punish
This article addresses whether and how organizational processes and the exercise of discretion affect the relationship between sentencing reforms and sentencing outcomes. Organizational perspectives are drawn upon to develop competing hypotheses regarding courts' adaptations to and implementation of reforms under sentencing guidelines. To test these hypotheses, changes in the charging and sentencing of drug offenders in Washington State from 1986…
Modeling the Effects of Legally Relevant and Extralegal Factors Under Sentencing Guidelines
Studies of sentencing in jurisdictions with sentencing guidelines have generally failed to specify adequately the effects of offense seriousness and criminal history—the principal factors that, by law, should determine sentencing decisions. As a result, the explanatory power of those models is seriously limited, and regression coefficients representing both legal and extralegal factors may be biased. We present an alternative approach to specify …
Images of Danger and Culpability
In this paper we argue that the meaning of race in criminal justice decision making will vary depending on other offender and offense characteristics, and that differences in treatment within races may therefore be as large as differences between races. We find that, among adult drug offenders from Washington State, those white offenders who most closely resemble the stereotype of a dangerous drug offender receive significantly harsher treatment …
Discretion and Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines
This article examines the use of alternative sentencing provisions as mechanisms for departing from sentencing guidelines in Washington State and as structural sources of unwarranted sentencing disparity. The authors argue that these structural features of guidelines not only serve as “windows of discretion” through which disparities arise, but they also may encourage disparities by requiring consideration of substantive criteria that disadvantag…
Racial Disparities in the Punishment of Youth
Findings from research on racial disparities in juvenile justice outcomes are mixed and the causes of minority overrepresentation in juvenile justice remain unclear. This study systematically examines the relationship between theories of disparity in juvenile justice, methodological characteristics of studies, and findings regarding the effects of race in the existing empirical literature. The results indicate that several theoretically derived m…
The Power to Punish
This article addresses whether and how organizational processes and the exercise of discretion affect the relationship between sentencing reforms and sentencing outcomes. Organizational perspectives are drawn upon to develop competing hypotheses regarding courts' adaptations to and implementation of reforms under sentencing guidelines. To test these hypotheses, changes in the charging and sentencing of drug offenders in Washington State from 1986…
Assessing determinate and presumptive sentencing—Making research relevant
Conceptualizing Legally Relevant Factors Under Guidelines
Racial disparity in the wake of Booker/Fanfan Making sense of “messy” results and other challenges for sentencing research
Conceptualizing Legally Relevant Factors Under Guidelines
Modeling the Effects of Legally Relevant and Extralegal Factors Under Sentencing Guidelines
Studies of sentencing in jurisdictions with sentencing guidelines have generally failed to specify adequately the effects of offense seriousness and criminal history—the principal factors that, by law, should determine sentencing decisions. As a result, the explanatory power of those models is seriously limited, and regression coefficients representing both legal and extralegal factors may be biased. We present an alternative approach to specify …
The Power to Punish
This article addresses whether and how organizational processes and the exercise of discretion affect the relationship between sentencing reforms and sentencing outcomes. Organizational perspectives are drawn upon to develop competing hypotheses regarding courts' adaptations to and implementation of reforms under sentencing guidelines. To test these hypotheses, changes in the charging and sentencing of drug offenders in Washington State from 1986…
Racial Disparities in the Punishment of Youth
Findings from research on racial disparities in juvenile justice outcomes are mixed and the causes of minority overrepresentation in juvenile justice remain unclear. This study systematically examines the relationship between theories of disparity in juvenile justice, methodological characteristics of studies, and findings regarding the effects of race in the existing empirical literature. The results indicate that several theoretically derived m…
Discretion and Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines
This article examines the use of alternative sentencing provisions as mechanisms for departing from sentencing guidelines in Washington State and as structural sources of unwarranted sentencing disparity. The authors argue that these structural features of guidelines not only serve as “windows of discretion” through which disparities arise, but they also may encourage disparities by requiring consideration of substantive criteria that disadvantag…
Images of Danger and Culpability
In this paper we argue that the meaning of race in criminal justice decision making will vary depending on other offender and offense characteristics, and that differences in treatment within races may therefore be as large as differences between races. We find that, among adult drug offenders from Washington State, those white offenders who most closely resemble the stereotype of a dangerous drug offender receive significantly harsher treatment …
Assessing determinate and presumptive sentencing—Making research relevant
Racial disparity in the wake of Booker/Fanfan Making sense of “messy” results and other challenges for sentencing research
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminal justice (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)