Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors

By Shawn D. Bushway, Emily Owens, A. Piehl. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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• The age of secrecy and unfairness in recidivism prediction (2018, background): “Typographical (data-entry) errors are extremely common (34), which means risk-score errors occur regularly.”
• Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences (2014, background): “The guidelines thus remain a key reference point ðScott 2010; Bushway, Owens, and Piehl ½2012 find that state advisory guidelines influence sentencesÞ.”