Social context and racial disparities in punishment decisions

By C. Britt. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Location, location, location: Interdistrict and intercircuit variation in sentencing outcomes for federal drug-trafficking offenses (2002, background): “Rather, a myriad of multilevel factors influence the sentencing decision (Britt, 2000).”
AN ANALYSIS OF PAROLE DECISION MAKING USING A SAMPLE OF SEX OFFENDERS: A FOCAL CONCERNS (2006, background): “…as a larger threat to the community and believe that they may be less amenable to rehabilitation, thereby increasing the chances that the criminal justice system will punish them more harshly (Britt, 2000; Kramer and Steffensmeier, 1993; Spohn and Holleran, 2000; Steffensmeier and Demuth, 2001).”
Prosecutorial Discretion: An Examination of Substantial Assistance Departures in Federal Crack‐Cocaine and Powder‐Cocaine Cases (2007, background): “These wave-five studies use multilevel modeling techniques to determine whether sentence outcomes vary across jurisdictions and to identify interjurisdictional differences in the factors that affect sentencing decisions (Britt, 2000; Kautt, 2002; Ulmer & Johnson, 2004).”
A Multilevel Analysis of Community Effects on Criminal Sentencing (2005, methodology): “There are a handful of studies that incorporate data on defendants and the communities in which they are adjudicated (Britt, 2000; Demuth, 2000; Dixon, 1995; Huang, Finn, Ruback, & Friedmann, 1996; Kramer & Ulmer, 1996; Myers & Talarico, 1987; Steffensmeier, Kramer, & Streifel, 1993; Steffensmeier, ”
Effects of Individual and Contextual Characteristics on Preadjudication Detention of Juvenile Delinquents (2005, background): “Prior sentencing studies have captured the importance of measuring social context in disposition and sentencing outcomes (Bortner, Zatz, & Hawkins, 2000; Britt, 2000; Myers & Talarico, 1987; Peterson & Hagan, 1984; Secret & Johnson, 1997).”
Neighborhood Characteristics, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Violence (2006, background): “This was done so that the neighborhood coefficients would represent contextual effects and not be confounded with compositional effects (see Britt 2000 ).”
Reassessing and Redirecting Research on Race and Sentencing (2013, background): “Sommers, 2006, 2007), and selected other studies of noncapital cases (e.g. Baumer, Messner, & Felson, 2000; Britt, 2000; Fearn, 2005; King, Johnson, & McGeever, 2010; Spohn & Spears, 1996; Ulmer & Johnson, 2004) highlight the importance of many other dimensions of race in criminal justice processing”