RT Article T1 Equality Before the Courts?: studying Citizenship Disparities in Sentencing in Catalonia JF European journal on criminal policy and research VO 29 IS 4 SP 601 OP 624 A1 Riba, José María López A2 Cabello, Úrsula Ruiz A2 Varona Gómez, Daniel A2 Vasilescu, Cristina LA English YR 2023 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1869718992 AB Overrepresentation of foreigners in prisons is a well-established fact in Spain. However, there is a lack of empirical studies exploring the causes of this overrepresentation. Based on focal concerns theory, this paper aims to explore one of the possible causes of this overrepresentation: sentencing disparities between Spanish and foreign citizens. For this purpose, two subsets of court records are used to study disparities in the odds of incarceration (n = 2310) and differences in the length of prison sentence (n = 1162). Due to alleged limitations of standard regression models to analyse disparities in sentencing when differences between groups are large, entropy re-weighting was used to achieve balance between group observations with regard to control variables. The analyses reveal, on the one hand that, even when controlling for relevant legal and other extra-legal factors, citizens from Africa have higher odds than Spanish citizens to be sentenced to prison. On the other hand, no differences in the length of the conviction have been found. NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 620-624 K1 Citizenship K1 Entropy balancing K1 Focal Concerns K1 Prison K1 Sentencing disparities DO 10.1007/s10610-022-09530-w