Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research

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Race and Cumulative Discrimination in the Prosecution of Criminal Defendants (2013, background): “Additionally, because a number of studies report that the combination of race and other defendant characteristics are important in predicting criminal justice outcome (Spohn, 2000; Ulmer, 2012), we added an interaction term between race and prior record to the analysis to determine whether Black cri”
Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age on Criminal Punishment (2017, background): “Research on the effects of legal, case processing, and extralegal variables on sentencing outcomes reveals important variation in sentences given to convicted offenders (for reviews, see Doerner and Demuth 2010; Spohn 2000; Ulmer 2012).”
Opening Pandora’s Box: How Does Defendant Race Influence Plea Bargaining? (2016, background): “The majority of research on race and punishment has focused on the final sentencing decision (Baumer, 2013; Spohn, 2000; Ulmer, 2012; Zatz, 2000).”
Reassessing and Redirecting Research on Race and Sentencing (2013, background): “…on race and sentencing has slowly but surely made significant strides in advancing our understanding of the criminal sentencing process, and it continues to contribute in positive ways to identifying the specific conditions under which race shapes sentencing outcomes (Spohn, 2000; Ulmer, 2012).”