ose who commit petty crimes to those who commit violent felonies--into one group, which can yield false generalizations. Nor have individual versus peer-supported crimes been distinguished in the literature, even though all such variables may be relevant to sentencing guidelines that judges adopt.
That rationale is in the background of how the authors selected the sample subjects from which they intended to seek data. They identified 106 juvenile-court judges in the state of Ohio and used a questionnaire and some hypothetical case presentations to ask the judges to convey the degree to which they consider offense and offender information to dispose of cases. The sampling method
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