Sentencing scorecards: reducing racial disparities in prison sentences at their source

Research Scorecards have become an increasingly common tool for public policy decision making about important issues in education, finance, and health care. Few scorecards have been applied in criminal justice and none has been developed to highlight racial disparities in incarceration. We construct...

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Main Author: Ridgeway, Greg (Author)
Contributors: Bushway, Shawn ; Moyer, Ruth A.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Criminology & public policy
Year: 2020, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 1113-1138
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Benchmarking
Criminal Justice
Performance measurement
Racial Disparities
Sentencing