RT Research Data
T1 Community Context and Sentencing Decisions in 39 Counties in the United States, 1998
A1 Fearn, Noelle E.
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840064684
AB This study aimed to understand the extent to which punishment is influenced by the larger social context in which it occurs by examining both the main and conditioning influence of community context on individual sentences. The primary research questions for this study were (1) Does community context affect sentencing outcomes for criminal defendants net of the influence of defendant and case characteristics? and (2) Does community context condition the influences of defendant age, race, and sex on sentencing outcomes? Data from the 1998 State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) were merged with a unique county-level dataset that provided information on the characteristics of the counties in which defendants were adjudicated. County-level data included unemployment, crime rates, sex ratio, age structure, religious group affiliation, and political orientation.
K1 Case processing
K1 Communities
K1 counties
K1 court cases
K1 Defendants
K1 felons
K1 Sentencing
K1 state courts
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR03923.v1