RT Article
T1 Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 1
SP 126
OP 156
A1 Gruenewald, Jeff
A2 Klein, Brent R.
A2 Hayes, Brittany E.
A2 Parkin, William S.
A2 June, Taylor
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882523946
AB This study examines how strength of ideology, victim status, and other factors shape prosecutorial and sentencing decisions in cases of far-right extremist homicide. We draw from multiple conceptual frameworks to understand how assessments of defendants? blameworthiness, crime seriousness, and other practical constraints influence the severity of legal outcomes. Our analysis of data from the United States Extremist Crime Database finds that while demographic attributes of homicide participants have little influence on legal outcomes, strong affiliations to domestic extremism and indicators of crime seriousness and risk significantly predict harsher treatment of defendants. We contextualize our findings within the broader criminological sentencing literature and discuss their implications for understanding how the American criminal justice system responds to domestic violent extremism.
K1 White Supremacy
K1 domestic violent extremism
K1 extreme far-right
K1 Sentencing
DO 10.1177/00111287221109769