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 …

Racial threat theory: Assessing the evidence, requesting redesign

CB Dollar - Journal of criminology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Racial threat theory was developed as a way to explain how population composition
influences discriminatory social control practices and has become one of the most …

Is the impact of cumulative disadvantage on sentencing greater for Black defendants?

J Wooldredge, J Frank, N Goulette… - Criminology & Public …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary We examined race‐group differences in the effects of how felony
defendants are treated at earlier decision points in case processing on case outcomes …

Criminal courts as inhabited institutions: Making sense of difference and similarity in sentencing

JT Ulmer - Crime and Justice, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
An inhabited institutions perspective views institutions from the bottom up, as “inhabited” by
individual and organizational actors who have agency, rather than as static, top-down …

Focally concerned about focal concerns: A conceptual and methodological critique of sentencing disparities research

M Lynch - Justice quarterly, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Abstract “Focal concerns” is the predominant theoretical framework in criminology for
explaining disparities in sentencing outcomes. While the framework has generated a large …

Criminal prosecutions: Examining prosecutorial discretion and charge reductions in US federal district courts

LON Shermer, BD Johnson - Justice Quarterly, 2010‏ - Taylor & Francis
The role of the prosecutor in criminal punishments remains a fervent topic of criminal justice
discourse, yet it has received limited empirical attention, particularly for US Attorneys in …

Racial/ethnic threat and federal sentencing

B Feldmeyer, JT Ulmer - Journal of Research in Crime and …, 2011‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines whether federal sentencing decisions are influenced by the
racial/ethnic composition of federal court districts. Multilevel models of individual cases …

Opening Pandora's box: How does defendant race influence plea bargaining?

BL Kutateladze, NR Andiloro, BD Johnson - Justice Quarterly, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Minority overrepresentation in the criminal justice system has long been an important topic
of research and policy debate. In New York City, recent changes in the Rockefeller Drug …

Snitching: Criminal informants and the erosion of American justice

A Natapoff - Snitching, 2022‏ - degruyter.com
Curtis Flowers spent twenty-three years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta
police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. Rachel …

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 …