Race matters: public views on sentencing

Research consistently finds that while the public expresses concerns about sentence leniency in the abstract, when presented with a specific case, people are typically not particularly punitive (Hough and Roberts 2012). While Canadian studies have further explored the effect of various social-struct...

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Authors: Singh, Anne-Marie 1967- (Author) ; Sprott, Jane B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
Year: 2017, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 285-312
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Public perceptions
Sentencing
Racialized offenders
Öffentliche Wahrnehmung
Strafzumessung