Sentencing disparities by race of offender and victim: Women homicide offenders in Alabama, 1929–1985

Hanke, Penelope J.

doi:10.1080/02732173.1995.9982101

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“…Perhaps most well known is a body of research that connects victim race to sentencing dispositions in death penalty cases (Radelet and Pierce 1991;Hanke 1995;Unah and Boger 2001), generally finding more favorable outcomes for the killers of nonwhite victims. Baumer et al (2000) report limited evidence for a similar "devaluing" effect of victim race-defendants who killed nonwhite victims were less likely to be convicted on the most serious charge in the indictment.…”

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Just Another Crime? Examining Disparity in Homicide Sentencing

Auerhahn

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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Analyses of disparity in sentencing most frequently use general felony court samples. Because of this, little is known about the specific patterns of sentencing disparity among defendants convicted of criminal homicide. Using a sample of defendants adjudicated guilty of homicide in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over the period 1995–2000, this research seeks to describe and explain patterns of sentencing with reference to legal and extralegal defendant and case characteristics. The findings indicate that it is primarily legally relevant variables that influence sentencing outcomes in homicide cases; however, some evidence is found for case processing effects as well as for the operation of criminal stereotypes in the generation of sentence disparities. Implications of these findings for research designs and theory development are discussed.

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Section: Victim Characteristicsmentioning

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Just Another Crime? Examining Disparity in Homicide Sentencing

Auerhahn

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…Paradoxically, studies of women convicted of IP homicide have exhibited an inversion of this pattern. Some research has shown that White defendants receive substantially longer prison sentences than their non-White counterparts (Bannister, 1996;Leonard, 2001Leonard, , 2002; see also Hanke, 1995). In addition, a number of researchers report extremely harsh sentences for women convicted of IP homicide (Bannister, 1996;Browne, 1987;Leonard, 2001Leonard, , 2002.…”

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Adjudication Outcomes in Intimate and Non-Intimate Homicides

Auerhahn

2007

Homicide Studies

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Most prior research on intimate partner (IP) homicide sanctioning is limited by research designs that analyze outcomes only for defendants charged or convicted of IP homicide, or that focus on female offenders. These studies preclude comparisons of criminal justice responses to intimate and non-intimate homicide cases, as well as comparisons of male and female offenders. Using an original data set of homicide cases adjudicated guilty in Philadelphia during the period 1995 to 2000 ( N = 1137), intimate and non-intimate homicide cases are examined in bivariate and multivariate contingency table analyses. Contrary to earlier research suggesting harsher treatment for women convicted of IP homicide, the results indicate that male defendants convicted of IP homicide are treated more severely than female defendants at all examined stages of the criminal justice process. Additionally, male defendants are sanctioned more harshly for IP than for non-IP homicides. Explanations for the divergence of these findings from those of earlier studies are discussed.

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“…The discounting of victimhood, especially when victims are stigmatized as disreputable, leads to more lenient treatment by the criminal justice system (Baumer et al, 2000). This is evidenced by studies finding more favorable outcomes in death penalty cases for offenders who kill racial and ethnic minorities (Hanke, 1995;Radelet, 1991;Unah & Boger, 2001).…”

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Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States

Gruenewald

Klein

Hayes

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Crime & Delinquency

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This study examines how strength of ideology, victim status, and other factors shape prosecutorial and sentencing decisions in cases of far-right extremist homicide. We draw from multiple conceptual frameworks to understand how assessments of defendants’ blameworthiness, crime seriousness, and other practical constraints influence the severity of legal outcomes. Our analysis of data from the United States Extremist Crime Database finds that while demographic attributes of homicide participants have little influence on legal outcomes, strong affiliations to domestic extremism and indicators of crime seriousness and risk significantly predict harsher treatment of defendants. We contextualize our findings within the broader criminological sentencing literature and discuss their implications for understanding how the American criminal justice system responds to domestic violent extremism.

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Sentencing disparities by race of offender and victim: Women homicide offenders in Alabama, 1929–1985

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Just Another Crime? Examining Disparity in Homicide Sentencing

Just Another Crime? Examining Disparity in Homicide Sentencing

Adjudication Outcomes in Intimate and Non-Intimate Homicides

Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States

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