Recent developments and new directions in sentencing research

JT Ulmer - Justice Quarterly, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
Research on criminal sentencing, particularly on various types of disparity therein, has been
an active field of inquiry for decades. This paper provides a conceptual survey of research …

Gender Differences in Criminal Sentencing: Do Effects Vary Across Violent, Property, and Drug Offenses?*

S Fernando Rodriguez, TR Curry… - Social Science …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objective. Many studies find that females benefit from their gender in sentencing decisions.
Few researchers, however, address whether the gender‐sentencing association might be …

Does gender modify the effects of race–ethnicity on criminal sanctioning? Sentences for male and female white, black, and Hispanic defendants

D Steffensmeier, S Demuth - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2006‏ - Springer
Using data from large urban courts for the years 1990–1996 and drawing from the “focal
concerns” framework on case-process decision making, we examine the main and …

[كتاب][B] How do judges decide?: the search for fairness and justice in punishment

C Spohn - 2009‏ - books.google.com
How are sentences for federal, state, and local crimes determined? Is this process fairly and
justly applied to all concerned? How have reforms affected the process over the last 25 …

The impact of gender and race-ethnicity in the pretrial release process

S Demuth, D Steffensmeier - Social Problems, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
This study analyzes pretrial release data on a sample of felony defendants representing the
nation's 75 most populated counties for 1990—1996 to assess the main and interactive …

Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in perceptions of the police: The salience of officer race within the context of racial profiling

JC Cochran, PY Warren - Journal of contemporary criminal …, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Prior research has consistently demonstrated the salience of minority status in
understanding racial and ethnic differences in perceptions of the police. This research has …

Race, plea, and charge reduction: An assessment of racial disparities in the plea process

C Metcalfe, T Chiricos - Justice Quarterly, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
With the growing recognition of the salience of prosecutorial discretion, attention to biases in
the earlier phases of case processing is increasing. Still, few studies have considered the …

Understanding the female offender

E Cauffman - The future of children, 2008‏ - JSTOR
Although boys engage in more delinquent and criminal acts than do girls, female
delinquency is on the rise. In 1980, boys were four times as likely as girls to be arrested; …

Sex-based sentencing: Sentencing discrepancies between male and female sex offenders

R Embry, PM Lyons Jr - Feminist Criminology, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The current research examines the utility of the evil woman hypothesis by examining
sentencing discrepancies between male and female sex offenders. National Corrections …

Does victim gender increase sentence severity? Further explorations of gender dynamics and sentencing outcomes

TR Curry, G Lee, SF Rodriguez - Crime & Delinquency, 2004‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Theoretical and empirical research pertaining to the influence of gender on sentencing
outcomes has focused almost exclusively on the gender of offenders. What this literature has …