The Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing

Myers, Martha A.; Talarico, Susette M.

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“…As many have argued (Hagan 1987;Myers and Talarico 1987;Sampson and Laub 1993a;Chiricos and Crawford 1995), the key to resolving racial differences in processing may turn in large part on contextual or macrolevel differences. This parallels the arguments made in favor of a community-level interpretation of racial differences in criminal offending.…”

Section: F Imprisonment Disparitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

Sampson¹,

Lauritsen²

1997

Crime and Justice

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Section: F Imprisonment Disparitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

Sampson¹,

Lauritsen²

1997

Crime and Justice

367

243

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“…Studies conducted in the 1980s focusing on the various stages of the criminal justice system found that few disparities existed in postarrest case processing and that the disparities observed at some levels were relatively small and countered by the disparities made in other decisions along the way (Blumstein, 1982;Hagan and Peterson, 1984;Klein et al, 1990;Kleck, 1981;Myers and Talarico, 1987;Petersilia, 1983;Spohn et al, 1981Spohn et al, -1982. However, contradictory results were found by Nelson (1994), who examined disparities in the incarceration of minorities.…”

Section: Inequality In the Justice Systemmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The inconsistency found in the literature has created the need for a contextual analysis of sentencing processes, i.e., examining the effect of the social and political environment in which the criminal justice system operates (Hagan and Bumiller, 1983;Myers and Talarico, 1987).…”

Section: Inequality In the Justice Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Israeli criminal justice system in action—Is justice administered differentially?

Fishman

Rattner

1997

J Quant Criminol

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IsThis study focuses on two major junctures in the Israeli criminal justice system, the preadjudication stage and the trial stage. The data are gathered from records accumulated during the period 1980 through 1992. For each year between 1980 and 1992, a random sample of 3637 persons, who had their first police contact during that year, was drawn from the computerized central file at Israeli Police Headquarters. A total of 40,007 individuals, with a total of 97,000 records, constituted the study population. The results identify which criminal records were most likely to be terminated prior to adjudication and which records, once adjudicated, were most likely to conclude in conviction. Major emphasis was placed on the issue of nationality--being an Arab or a Jew--while the effect of other variables, such as the type of offense and the time period, were controlled. The criminal justice system was found to be less discriminating at the early stages of the criminal process, but as the offender moved along the process, the chances that nationality would play an important part increased.

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“…To enhance the explanatory power of models, some researchers incorporate measures of courtroom context, including judge level variables, and external environments, such as political forces (Bontrager et al 2005;Johnson 2005;Myers and Talarico 1987;Ulmer 2012;Ulmer and Johnson 2004;Ward et al 2009). Several researchers seek to isolate the effects of the demographic and racial composition of various actors in the criminal justice system, including judges (Spohn 1990;Tiede et al 2010;Welch et al 1988;Wooldredge 2010), prosecutors (Ward et al 2009), and the local legal profession (King et al 2010).…”

Section: The Judge Within Social Science Research: Sentencing Patternsmentioning

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Locating the Judge within Sentencing Research

Anleu

Brewer

Mack

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Research into sentencing is undertaken from a range of theoretical, disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Each approach offers valuable insights, including a conception of the judge, sometimes explicit, often implicit. Little scholarly attention has been paid to directly interrogating the ways in which different research traditions construct the judge in the sentencing process. By investigating how different research approaches locate the judge as an actor in sentencing, theoretically and empirically, this article addresses that gap. It considers key examples of socio-legal scholarship which emphasise the judge as operating within experiential, emotional and social, as well as legal dimensions. This growing body of research offers a more social, relational and interactive understanding of the judge in sentencing, extending and complementing the valuable, but necessarily limited, insights of other research approaches about the place of the judge in sentencing. KeywordsJudges; judging; judicial decision making; sentencing; sentencing research; socio-legal research. Please cite this article as:Roach Anleu S, Brewer R and Mack K (2017). Locating the judge within sentencing research.International

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The Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing

Cited by 196 publications

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

The Israeli criminal justice system in action—Is justice administered differentially?

Locating the Judge within Sentencing Research

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