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Profiling Sentence Enhancement Offenders: A Case Study of Florida's 10-20-Lifers
Criminal justice policy review, Vol.14(2), pp.229-248
06/2003
Abstract
This study creates a profile of criminals incarcerated as 10-20-Life offenders and is the initial stage of a postimpact analysis of the statute. Data on all incarcerated 10-20-Life offenders (N = 1,065 as of November 1, 2001) were collected from the Florida Department of Corrections. The data included individual and criminal offense characteristics. The findings reveal that Florida's 10-20-Lifers are overwhelmingly male (96%) and one half are between the ages of 23 and 41. Eighty percent of the offenses were for felon in possession of a firearm or concealed weapon and robbery with a fire-arm or deadly weapon. Slightly over one half of the offenders were sentenced to a term of 3 years and the remaining were sentenced to 10 or more years. The average sentence received was 8 years. The average sentence length was significantly higher for Black offenders sentenced under 10-20-Life. Moreover, Black offenders received all nine of the life sentences.
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- Title
- Profiling Sentence Enhancement Offenders
- Publication Details
- Criminal justice policy review, Vol.14(2), pp.229-248
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Copyright
- © 2003 Sage Publications
- Identifiers
- 99380532965806600
- Academic Unit
- Emerald Coast; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies
- Language
- English