Are you judged by the residence you keep?: homicide sentencing, attribution and neighborhood context
This article investigates the effects of neighborhood residential context on sentencing outcomes for homicide defendants (N=636) in a large U.S. city and presents a theoretical model of judges’ place-based attributions about sentencing homicide defendants in an urban context. Defendants residing in...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2017
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Criminology, criminal justice, law & society
Jahr: 2017, Band: 18, Heft: 1, Seiten: 28-51 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article investigates the effects of neighborhood residential context on sentencing outcomes for homicide defendants (N=636) in a large U.S. city and presents a theoretical model of judges’ place-based attributions about sentencing homicide defendants in an urban context. Defendants residing in neighborhoods characterized by a higher degree of disadvantage received more lenient sentences, a finding that is consistent with Cooney and Burt’s (2008) work regarding the effects of the geographic prevalence of homicide on sanctioning. These results support the use of offense-specific theoretical models and analyses of sanctioning and adjudication outcomes, as well as more broad-based consideration of the nature of spatial effects in sociological and criminological research |
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| ISSN: | 2332-886X |