CADSR Criminal Justice

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Browsing CADSR Criminal Justice by Author "Mellon, Leonard R."

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    The Effects of Learning and Policy Transference on Prosecutorial Desicionmaking
    (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), 1980-05) Jacoby, Joan E.; Mellon, Leonard R.; Greenberg, Sheldon; Ratledge, Edward C.; Turner, Stanley H.
    The purpose of this research is to examine the factors affecting prosecutorial decision-making and to measure the differences that occur in decision-making within an office and among offices. Within offices, the research focuses on a separate but related issue; namely, the causes of disagreement in decisions among individual prosecutors themselves and in relation to their organizational leaders. A quasi-experimental design employing a before/after test was used, the identical instrument was employed on both occasions.
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    Policy and Prosecution
    (U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1982-01) Jacoby, Joan E.; Mellon, Leonard R.; Smith, Walter F.
    This report presents a conceptual model for analyzing the prosecutive decision-making function from a policy perspective; summarizes the findings of a comparative examination of ten prosecutors' offices; and supplements the results of the on-site studies with information gathered by a nationwide survey of eighty urban prosecutors.
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    Prosecutorial Decisionmaking: A National Study
    (U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1982-01) Jacoby, Joan E.; Mellon, Leonard R.; Ratledge, Edward C.; Turner, Stanley H.
    This report, Prosecutorial Decision-making: A National Study is one of four published as a result of a three-year research project on prosecutorial decision-making in the United States. It presents the major findings of testing over 800 prosecutors throughout the United States. It examines prosecutorial discretion, its levels of uniformity and consistency both within and between offices and the factors used by prosecutors in making discretionary decisions.
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    The Standard Case Set: A Tool for Criminal Justice Decisionmakers
    (U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1982-01) Jacoby, Joan E.; Mellon, Leonard R.; Turner, Stanley H.; Ratledge, Edward C.
    This report explains how the set of standard cases can be used by an agency for management, training and operations.