A significant body of literature has examined racial and ethnic inequalities in sentencing,
focusing on how individual court actors make decisions, but fewer scholars have examined …

We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judges'
sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case …

This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage:
through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision. We examine …

E verything is connected.'In the criminal justice system, racial bias at individual stages
connects to create cumulative disadvantage for defendants of color. Cumulative …

Empirically oriented legal scholars and social scientists have developed a voluminous
literature documenting racial disparities in sentencing at both the state and federal …

We assess whether black-white disparities in commitments to prison or diversions to
treatment for drug offenders in California can be explained by differences in the …

Given the debate at the seventy-second Conference of the Association of German Jurists
(Deutscher Juristentag) in September 2018 on whether German sentencing needs reform …

Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's records, we examine
the extent to which the Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines curbed judicial sentencing …

The gender of the offender has been proved to be an important factor in judicial sentencing.
In this study, we analyze the judgments of College students regarding perpetrators of familial …

In a criminal sentencing system based on optimal deterrence, groups will receive different
average sentences based on disparities in conviction probabilities, with longer prison …