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punishment equivalencies: a standalone construct

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Courts and sentencing

offender ratings of how many units of an alternative sanction feel as severe as a given prison term, used to scale the relative punitiveness of sanctions.

In courts and sentencing, punishment equivalencies refers to offender ratings of how many units of an alternative sanction feel as severe as a given prison term, used to scale the relative punitiveness of sanctions. This meaning comes from Wood (1999) in Justice Quarterly.[1]

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References

Wood, P. B., & Grasmick, H. G. (1999). Toward the development of punishment equivalencies: Male and female inmates rate the severity of alternative sanctions compared to prison. Justice Quarterly, 16(1), 19-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418829900094041

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