Differential treatment of female defendants: does criminal history moderate the effect of gender on sentence length in federal narcotics cases?

Past research indicates that men and women are treated differently at the sentencing phase, but the specifics of this relationship have not been fully explicated. The current study draws on the chivalry and evil woman hypotheses to examine how a defendant?s gender may interact with criminal history...

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Main Author: Tillyer, Rob (Author)
Contributors: Hartley, Richard D. ; Ward, Jeffrey T.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 7, Pages: 703-721
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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