Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-236) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Apologies and courtroom apologies -- The context of federal sentencing hearings -- What defendants say in response to their offenses -- Defendants talk about the past, the future, and the present: mitigation, future behavior, and the sentence -- Broad features of defendants' allocutions -- Conclusions.
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