This study measures the effect of CCTV in Newark, NJ across three separate crime
categories: auto theft, theft from auto, and violent crime. CCTV viewsheds, denoting camera …

The importance of improving consistency in sentencing has been underscored by
institutional reforms in a number of jurisdictions. However, the effectiveness of these policy …

Considers, using statistics from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, the extent to which
gender disparities are evident in the sentences imposed for burglary, assault and drug …

Given the salience of the principle of equality before the law, there is growing interest in
understanding the relationship between immigration and sentencing disparities; however …

The plea bargain is now the most frequent mode of conviction in many countries, yet several
problems have been highlighted, such as loss of rights, enhanced sentencing disparities or …

Research on legal and extralegal disparity in criminal sentencing has been conducted
primarily in the United States, and, to a lesser extent, in select European nations. Largely …

Most research in sentencing discrimination in the United Kingdom has relied on aggregate
analyses comparing disparities by ethnic group. These studies fail to consider differences in …

This article investigates the presence of unwarranted between court disparities in England
and Wales, examining whether they can be explained by non-legal contextual factors such …

This study investigates sentencing disparity under the sentencing guidelines in China.
Drawing upon the firsthand data of 509 criminal cases from a county-level court in 2015, our …

The 'England and Wales Sentencing Guidelines' aim to promote consistency by organizing
the sentencing process as a sequence of steps, with initial judicial assessments …