Institutionalizing inequality in the courts: decomposing racial and ethnic disparities in detention, conviction, and sentencing

A significant body of literature has examined racial and ethnic inequalities in sentencing, focusing on how individual court actors make decisions, but fewer scholars have examined whether disparities are institutionalized through legal case factors. After finding racial and ethnic inequalities in p...

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Main Author: Omori, Marisa (Author)
Contributors: Petersen, Nick
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Criminology
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Courts and sentencing
Decomposition models
Racial inequality

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