The Depravity Standard III: Validating an evidence-based guide

Michael Welner, Kate Y. O'Malley, James Gonidakis, Alisha Saxena and Jada Stewart-Willis

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2018, vol. 55, issue C, 12-24

Abstract: The Depravity Standard is an evidence-based guide developed to operationalize an approach to distinguish the worst of crimes in a consistent manner that minimizes bias. This phase of the research was designed to validate the Depravity Standard items and develop a scoring mechanism.

Keywords: Murder sentencing; Evil; Heinous, atrocious, and cruel (HAC); Depravity Standard; Sentencing reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.12.010

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