Does the crown court discriminate against muslim-named offenders?: a novel investigation based on text mining techniques

Most research in sentencing discrimination in the United Kingdom has relied on aggregate analyses comparing disparities by ethnic group. These studies fail to consider differences in the individual characteristics of the cases processed. To circumvent the lack of official data, we scraped sentence r...

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Main Author: Pina-Sánchez, Jose (Author)
Contributors: Roberts, Julian V. ; Sferopoulos, Dimitrios
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 718-736
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