Attitudes and Practices of Federal Probation Officers Towards Pre-plea Trial Investigative Report Policy

    Authors

    M. M. Lanier;C. H. Miller

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    Keywords

    Criminology & Penology

    Abstract

    Federal courts rely on information contained in pre-sentence investigations to determine sentence length. However defendants do not have access to this prior to entering a plea. Thus many offenders have received sentences longer than what was anticipated during plea negotiations. The authors surveyed chief federal probation officers (n = 96) to measure the feasibility of pre-plea reports being prepared. The 68% response rate provided strong indication of practices and attitudes. Despite the increased work associated with such a system, some support does exist for the concept. Further; most respondents acknowledged that such a system would be beneficial to defendants.

    Journal Title

    Crime & Delinquency

    Volume

    41

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-1995

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    364

    Last Page

    377

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:A1995RE027000062

    ISSN

    0011-1287

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