After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

A common complaint about the sociology of deviance, particularly the perspective known as
labeling theory or the societal reaction perspective, is that the field is dead. However …

Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals,
the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison—and for …

Guidelines sentencing data from Pennsylvania for the years 1985–1987 are analyzed to
assess the influence of gender on judges' imprisonment decisions. These data provide …

Nearly half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, the historic Supreme Court decision
that outlawed racially segregated public schools, the issue of race relations in the United …

Although racial discrimination emerges some of the time at some stages of criminal justice
processing-such as juvenile justice-there is little evidence that racial disparities result from …

From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates
of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed …

This article develops a macrolevel framework on inequality and juvenile court processing by
integrating ideas drawn from conflict theory, research on urban poverty, and recent race …

Numerous studies have addressed the question: Are African-Americans treated more
harshly than similarly situated whites? This research employs meta-analysis to synthesize …

In a provocative examination of the role of law in promoting social change, Kristin Bumiller
contents that one effect of antidiscrimination laws has been to perpetuate the victimization of …