... the enormous discretion accorded judges under indeterminate sentencing schemes (Tonry, 1995). In reaction to perceived inequalities in the federal and state sentencing systems, social and legal scholars pressed for legislation that would replace indeterminate sentencing with a system that offered greater predictability in determining proper sentence dispositions and lengths of imprisonment (Frankel, 1973; von Hirsch, 1976; Kennedy ... and social class. Unfortunately, most court data do not include measures of socioeconomic status, so the effects of race and class are confounded. Without ...

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