Judging Judicial Discretion: Legal Factors and Racial Discrimination in Sentencing

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Let My People Go: Ethnic In‐Group Bias in Judicial Decisions—Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment (2010, neutral): “This does not mean that racial discrimination has disappeared; rather that if it exists, it is more subtle and harder to observe (Daly and Tonry, 1997; Bushway and Piehl, 2001).”
Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research (2012, methodology): “Also, as Engen (2009) and Bushway and Piehl (2007) note, the evaluation of”
An Examination of the Interactions of Race and Gender on Sentencing Decisions Using a Trichotomous Dependent Variable (2013, neutral): “Many studies have found that women receive shorter sentences than men do (Albonetti, 1997; Bushway & Piehl, 2001; Farnworth & Teske, 1995; Huang, Finn, Ruback, & Friedmann, 1996; Jeffries Fletcher, & Newbold, 2003; Mustard, 2001; Orsagh, 1985; Rodriguez, Curry, & Lee, 2006; Ulmer & Kramer, 1996).”
Measuring and Explaining Charge Bargaining (2007, background): “15 Consistent with the results from Engen and Gainey (2000) and Bushway and Piehl (2001), in the SCPS data, race has a larger impact in the two Maryland counties than it does in King County, Washington.”
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases (2015, neutral): “…the average length disparity in months by inverse propensity score weighting (“IPW”), without specifying any functional relationship between 13 Bushway and Piehl (2001) provide…”