Book chapter
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENTS OF RACE/ETHNICITY DISPARITIES IN FEDERAL SENTENCING
Race, Ethnicity and Law, pp.95-114
Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance, Emerald Group Publishing
01/01/2017
DOI: 10.1108/S1521-613620170000022009
Abstract
Purpose - This chapter presents four theories that hypothesize race/ethnicity disparities in sentence outcomes. Empirical studies assessing the relationship between defendant's race/ethnicity and sentence severity are discussed.
Methodology/approach - I focus on federal sentencing in terms of support or non-support of the theoretical perspectives.
Findings - Sentence disparity linked to defendant's race/ethnicity are observed as net main effects, as a component in joint-conditioning effects with other extralegal defendant characteristics, and as a variable that conditions the effect of process-related mechanism of discretion, and legally relevant case characteristics, and as indirect effects.
Originality/value - Theories share substantial conceptual overlap in specifying the relationship between defendant's race/ethnicity and predictions of the effect of defendant's race/ethnicity on sentence severity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENTS OF RACE/ETHNICITY DISPARITIES IN FEDERAL SENTENCING
- Creators
- Celesta A. Albonetti - Univ Iowa, Dept Sociol, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Contributors
- M Deflem (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Race, Ethnicity and Law, pp.95-114
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing; BINGLEY
- Series
- Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance
- DOI
- 10.1108/S1521-613620170000022009
- ISSN
- 1521-6136
- Number of pages
- 20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984305978002771
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