Background
Ulmer, Jeffery Todd was born on March 2, 1966 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Alvin and Louise T. Ulmer.
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Many states and the federal system have embraced sentencing guidelines as a mechanism of sentencing reform. This book draws from interactionist theories of organizations, and James Eisenstein's depiction of courts as communities, to frame an investigation of sentencing disparity, case processing, and organizational relations under Pennsylvania's sentencing guidelines. The author provides a statistical analysis of statewide sentencing outcomes and a comparative statistical and ethnographic analysis of three different-sized county courts. The statistical data show that the major influences on sentencing are legally prescribed ones, but that factors such as conviction by trial, race and gender, and court size are also significant. Ethnographic data illuminate processes behind the statistics by connecting court organizational contexts to case processing strategies, and these strategies to sentencing outcomes. The book concludes with twelve general propositions for future research, discussing possibilities and limitations of sentencing guidelines, and addressing broader issues in the sociology of crime, law, and organizations.
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Ulmer, Jeffery Todd was born on March 2, 1966 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Alvin and Louise T. Ulmer.
Bachelor in Sociology, Susquehanna University, 1988. Master of Arts in Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 1994. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 1993.
Research associate Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, State College, 1992-1994. Assistant professor sociology Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1994-2000. Associate professor sociology and crime, law and justice Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 2000.
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Member American Sociological Association, American Society Criminology, Society for Study of Symbolic Interaction, Society for Study of Social Problems.
Married Gail Johnston, December 29, 1994. Children: Jacob, Kathryn.