Ethnicity Effects on Sentence Outcomes in Large Urban Courts: Comparisons Among White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants*

By Stephen Demuth, D. Steffensmeier. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research (2012, methodology): “Similarly, Demuth and Steffensmeier (2004a) used the SCPS data to assess the main and interactive effects of gender and race/ethnicity on pretrial release.”
Restorative Justice in Schools (2015, unknown): “cities (Mosher, 2001), counties (Demuth & Steffensmeier, 2004), and states (Behrens, Uggen, & Manza, 2003).”
An Examination of the Interactions of Race and Gender on Sentencing Decisions Using a Trichotomous Dependent Variable (2013, background): “Several studies have found that race is not a significant predictor of sentence length (Demuth & Steffensmeier, 2004; Kramer & Steffensmeier, 1993) or that the effect is small or negligible (Spohn & Holleran, 2000; Steffensmeier et al., 1998; Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2000).”
A Multilevel Test of Minority Threat Effects on Sentencing (2010, methodology): “The data, available from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (study number 2038), have been used by a number of scholars (see, e.g., Bushway and Piehl 2007; Demuth and Steffensmeier 2004; Fearn 2005; Piehl and Bushway 2007; Steffensmeier and Demuth 2006; Weidner et al”
The Independent and Joint Effects of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Age on Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal Courts (2010, unknown): “…for a review, Chiricos & Crawford, 1995; Daly & Bordt, 1995; Spohn 2000), fewer studies focus on the influence of ethnicity (e.g., Albonetti, 1998; Demuth & Steffensmeier, 2004; Everett & Wojtkiewicz, 2002; Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2000) and age (e.g., Champion, 1987; Steffensmeier & Motivans,…”
The Effect of Race/Ethnicity on Sentencing: Examining Sentence Type, Jail Length, and Prison Length (2015, methodology): “…and/or empirically related to sentencing outcomes, and each was measured in ways consistent with prior research, especially those using State Court Processing Statistics data (Bushway & Piehl, 2007; Demuth & Steffensmeier, 2004; Fearn, 2005; Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2006; Wang & Mears, 2010).”