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R arm of morie.fn.sntmn: shares of cases sentenced at, below and above the applicable mandatory minimum and the mean excess over the minimum, overall and by offense.

Usage

Sntmn(
  df,
  offense_col = "offense",
  sentence_col = "sentence_days",
  min_col = "mandatory_min_days"
)

Arguments

df

Data frame or list with the three columns.

offense_col, sentence_col, min_col

Column names.

Value

A named list (the Python result's fields).

References

United States Sentencing Commission (2017). Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System. Washington, DC.

Examples

Sntmn(list(offense = c("a", "a", "b"), sentence_days = c(60, 90, 30),
  mandatory_min_days = c(60, 60, 60)))$value
#> [1] 0.3333333