NCJ Number
107087
Journal
Law and Society Review Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Dated: (1987) Pages: 291-313
Date Published
1987
Length
23 pages
Annotation
In this paper, the author analyzes the exercise of prosecutorial discretion to 'go forward' with charges.
Abstract
The author examines the relationship between sources of uncertainty in decisionmaking and the initial decision to begin the criminalization process. Organizational theory bearing on uncertainty avoidance provides the perspective guiding the analysis. The author uses a maximum likelihood procedure to estimate the net effects on the probability of prosecution of a set of variables emerging within the backdrop of prosecutorial concern for obtaining a conviction at a jury trial. (Publisher abstract)