RT Article
T1 The role of parental status and involvement in sentence length decisions: a comparison of men and women sentenced to prison
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 65
IS 14
SP 1899
OP 1924
A1 Tasca, Melinda
A1 Cho, Ahram
A1 Spohn, Cassia
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1677707224
AB Drawing upon familial paternalism theory, this study explores the effects of parental status and involvement on prison sentence length among men and women. To carry out this research, we relied on a combination of official and self-report data on 919 offenders sentenced to prison in Arizona. Results revealed that parents were not sentenced significantly differently from offenders without children; although women and mothers were punished more severely than their male counterparts. In addition, mothers who lived with their children before arrest received shorter prison terms than mothers who were uninvolved in their lives. Parental involvement was not a significant predictor of fathers’ prison sentences, however. This study illuminates the complex interplay between parenthood, gender, and sentencing.
K1 Sentencing
K1 Punishment
K1 Prisons
K1 Offenders
K1 Strafzumessung
K1 Gefängnis
DO 10.1177/0011128718811929