Contextualizing the Law: Sentencing Decisions of Sexual Assault Cases of Dallas County, 1999-2005
Description:
The incidence of sexual assault inundates the courts with many cases each year. Given the unique nature of the crime, judges and juries are faced with an array of different scenarios to which they are required to make fair, justifiable and consistent decisions. I examine child sexual assault cases of Dallas County 1999-2005, I look at both legal and extralegal factors including case characteristics, institutional characteristics and characteristics of the defendants and the victims. First, I ex…
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Date:
December 2006
Creator:
Greening, Megan