Custodial sanctions and reoffending: A meta-analytic review

DM Petrich, TC Pratt, CL Jonson… - Crime and justice, 2021‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment.
Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring …

Sentencing Disparity and Focal Concern: An Assessment of Judicial Decisions on Sha Zhu Pan Cases Collected From China Judgements Online

F Wang - Crime & Delinquency, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Sha Zhu Pan (杀猪盘), or Pig-Butchering scam, is a new online romance scam that mainly
targets Chinese-speaking individuals to gain emotional trust and persuade victims to invest …

Testing predictive biases at the intersection of race-ethnicity and sex: A multi-site evaluation of a pretrial risk assessment tool

M DeMichele, IA Silver, RM Labrecque… - Criminal Justice …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Pretrial assessment instruments provide courtroom actors with information about the
likelihood that someone who has been charged with a criminal offense would engage in …

Citizenship and sentencing: Assessing intersectionality in national origin and legal migration status on federal sentencing outcomes

D Koo, B Feldmeyer, B Holmes - Journal of Research in …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: This study seeks to understand how national origin and legal migration status of
noncitizen defendants in federal criminal courts shape incarceration and sentence length …

Taking the long view: A temporal assessment of minority threat theory in 21st century sentencing

B Holmes, B Feldmeyer - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Purpose Researchers have offered several reasons for the mixed minority threat-sentencing
literature including diverse dependent variables, heterogenous threat conceptualizations …

Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts

SJ Piatkowska, T Sohoni, B Paige - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study examines the relationship between mental illness and sentencing in US state
courts applying a focal concerns theory framework and incorporating intersectionality. Using …

Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic

B Holmes, B Feldmeyer, D Sun, S Arrigo - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Despite over 1 million American lives lost to drug overdoses throughout
the 21st century and a turbulent history between federal courts and drugs, past research has …

Social Context and Early Disposition Departures: An Examination of Disparity in Immigration Sentencing Across US District Courts

B Willert, JS Nowacki - Crime & Delinquency, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In the 1990s, the United States Attorneys' Offices implemented programs to make sentencing
for immigration offenses more efficient by designating a number of “Fast-Track” districts. In …

[كتاب][B] Juvenile risk and needs assessment: Theory, research, policy, and practice

CJ Sullivan, KK Childs - 2021‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This book takes a comprehensive, analytic approach to understanding Juvenile Risk and
Needs Assessment (JRNA), covering elements relevant to how the practice affects youths' …

Exploring Gender Disparities in Prosecutorial and Judicial Decision-Making in the Global South: Evidence from Argentina

M Quintana-Navarrete, G Fondevila… - Journal of Research …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives This study examines gender disparities in criminal cases from the earliest stages
of prosecutorial decision-making in Argentina. Methods The data for this study are all …