The Impact of Race and Gender on Sentencing for Mississippi’s Indigent Population

Blakely Fox Fender, Carl Brooking, Lucy McNair, Dolly Mehta, Jared Eastlack and Brooke Pierce
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Blakely Fox Fender: Millsaps College
Carl Brooking: Millsaps College

Journal of Economic Insight, 2006, vol. 32, issue 1, 57-73

Abstract: This paper examines the question of racial and gender disparity in criminal sentencing in Mississippi. To isolate the impact of race and gender on sentencing, economic, individual, crime, county and court-specific intervening characteristics are considered in the context of a multivariate model that incorporates both the probability that an individual is incarcerated as well as the length of the sentence. Results indicate that gender disparity is not present in Mississippi's criminal sentencing process, but racial disparity does exist.

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Date: 2006
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