RT Article
T1 Is the impact of cumulative disadvantage on sentencing greater for black defendants?
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 14
IS 2
SP 187
OP 223
A1 Wooldredge, John
A2 Frank, James
A2 Goulette, Natalie
A2 Travis, Lawrence F.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1571036628
AB We examined race-group differences in the effects of how felony defendants are treated at earlier decision points in case processing on case outcomes. Multilevel analyses of 3,459 defendants nested within 123 prosecutors and 34 judges in a large, northern U.S. jurisdiction revealed significant main and interaction effects of a defendant's race on bond amounts, pretrial detention, and nonsuspended prison sentences, but no significant effects on charge reductions and prison sentence length. Evidence of greater “cumulative disadvantages” for Black defendants in general and young Black men in particular was revealed by significant indirect race effects on the odds of pretrial detention via type of attorney, prior imprisonment, and bond amounts, as well as by indirect race effects on prison sentences via pretrial detention and prior imprisonment.
K1 Sentencing disparity
K1 Cumulative disadvantage
K1 Bail
K1 Pretrial detention
K1 Kaution
K1 Bestrafung
K1 Strafermessung
K1 Strafungleichheit
K1 Vorverhandlung
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12124