Unpacking gender and racial/ethnic biases in the federal sentencing of drug offenders: A causal mediation approach

Jeffrey T. Ward, Richard D. Hartley and Rob Tillyer

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2016, vol. 46, issue C, 196-206

Abstract: Recently scholars have noted a limitation with current sentencing research is that the distinct contributions of prosecutorial and judicial discretion to sentence length have not been quantified. The current study seeks to calculate the proportion of sentence length disparities across gender and race/ethnicity that can be attributed to prosecutorial-initiated departures and sentencing decisions.

Keywords: Sentencing; Discretion; Bias; Narcotic offenders; Gender; Race/ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2016.05.008

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