RT Article
T1 Differential treatment of female defendants: does criminal history moderate the effect of gender on sentence length in federal narcotics cases?
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 42
IS 7
SP 703
OP 721
A1 Tillyer, Rob
A2 Hartley, Richard D. 1975-
A2 Ward, Jeffrey T.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885156928
AB 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 to affect sentence length in federal narcotics cases. Results indicate that gender?s effect on sentence length is nuanced, complex, and dependent on a defendant?s criminal history score; thus, conditional support is found for both the chivalry and evil woman hypotheses. Specifically, female defendants with lower criminal history scores received more lenient treatment (relative to male defendants) whereas those with higher criminal history scores received more severe sentences. These findings suggest that further exploration of interactions between extralegal and legal factors is necessary to uncover the complex ways in which gender influences court outcomes.
K1 Chivalry
K1 Criminal History
K1 evil woman
K1 Gender
K1 Sentencing
DO 10.1177/0093854814560624