MARGARET A GORDON

• The Use and Effects of Financial Penalties in Municipal Courts

  Open Access•MARGARET A GORDON, Daniel Glaser•ARTICLE•Criminology•1991•Citada por: 24•Referências: 8

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  With prison, jail, and probation caseloads overloaded, financial penalties appeal as alternative sanctions. Using probation data for cases sentenced in municipal courts, this paper presents regression analyses suggesting that judges tended to employ rational discretion in imposing economic sanctions, for monetary assessments without jail were most likely to be given to low‐risk offenders and assignment of probation alone and jail terms was most s…

• The Impact of Police Investigations on Police‐reported Rates of Gang and Nongang Homicides

  Open Access•Malcolm W Klein, MARGARET A GORDON et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•1986•Citada por: 6•Referências: 4

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  This paper is concerned with the utility of police‐reported rates of gang violence, particularly important in an era which stresses officially determined rates of violence. The basic question is whether police investigation procedures have a major impact on the police designations of homicides as gang related, a question of causal order answerable only by the triangulation provided by multiple forms of data analysis. With minor qualification, the…

• Differences Between Gang and Nongang Homicides

  Open Access•CHERYL L MAXSON, MARGARET A GORDON et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•1985•Citada por: 29•Referências: 8

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  Does gang‐related homicide direr sufficiently from nongang homicide to warrant specialized law enforcement response? Both cross‐tabular and discriminant analyses of data from over 700 homicide investigation files reveal substantial differences in ethnicity, age, number of participants, and relationship between participants. Gang homicides are also more likely to involve public areas, automobiles, firearms, and, in one jurisdiction, associated off…

• Differences Between Gang and Nongang Homicides

  Open Access•CHERYL L MAXSON, MARGARET A GORDON et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•1985•Citada por: 29•Referências: 8

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  Does gang‐related homicide direr sufficiently from nongang homicide to warrant specialized law enforcement response? Both cross‐tabular and discriminant analyses of data from over 700 homicide investigation files reveal substantial differences in ethnicity, age, number of participants, and relationship between participants. Gang homicides are also more likely to involve public areas, automobiles, firearms, and, in one jurisdiction, associated off…

• The Use and Effects of Financial Penalties in Municipal Courts

  Open Access•MARGARET A GORDON, Daniel Glaser•ARTICLE•Criminology•1991•Citada por: 24•Referências: 8

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  With prison, jail, and probation caseloads overloaded, financial penalties appeal as alternative sanctions. Using probation data for cases sentenced in municipal courts, this paper presents regression analyses suggesting that judges tended to employ rational discretion in imposing economic sanctions, for monetary assessments without jail were most likely to be given to low‐risk offenders and assignment of probation alone and jail terms was most s…

• The Impact of Police Investigations on Police‐reported Rates of Gang and Nongang Homicides

  Open Access•Malcolm W Klein, MARGARET A GORDON et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•1986•Citada por: 6•Referências: 4

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  This paper is concerned with the utility of police‐reported rates of gang violence, particularly important in an era which stresses officially determined rates of violence. The basic question is whether police investigation procedures have a major impact on the police designations of homicides as gang related, a question of causal order answerable only by the triangulation provided by multiple forms of data analysis. With minor qualification, the…

• Differences Between Gang and Nongang Homicides

  Open Access•CHERYL L MAXSON, MARGARET A GORDON et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•1985•Citada por: 29•Referências: 8

  Incluir item

  Does gang‐related homicide direr sufficiently from nongang homicide to warrant specialized law enforcement response? Both cross‐tabular and discriminant analyses of data from over 700 homicide investigation files reveal substantial differences in ethnicity, age, number of participants, and relationship between participants. Gang homicides are also more likely to involve public areas, automobiles, firearms, and, in one jurisdiction, associated off…

• The Impact of Police Investigations on Police‐reported Rates of Gang and Nongang Homicides

  Open Access•Malcolm W Klein, MARGARET A GORDON et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•1986•Citada por: 6•Referências: 4

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  This paper is concerned with the utility of police‐reported rates of gang violence, particularly important in an era which stresses officially determined rates of violence. The basic question is whether police investigation procedures have a major impact on the police designations of homicides as gang related, a question of causal order answerable only by the triangulation provided by multiple forms of data analysis. With minor qualification, the…

• The Use and Effects of Financial Penalties in Municipal Courts

  Open Access•MARGARET A GORDON, Daniel Glaser•ARTICLE•Criminology•1991•Citada por: 24•Referências: 8

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  With prison, jail, and probation caseloads overloaded, financial penalties appeal as alternative sanctions. Using probation data for cases sentenced in municipal courts, this paper presents regression analyses suggesting that judges tended to employ rational discretion in imposing economic sanctions, for monetary assessments without jail were most likely to be given to low‐risk offenders and assignment of probation alone and jail terms was most s…

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