Is Preferential Treatment of Female Offenders a Thing of the Past? A Multisite Study of Gender, Race, and Imprisonment

By C. Spohn, D. Beichner. 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Sentencing Female Misdemeanants: An Examination of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Race/Ethnicity (2006, background): “Having children and living with them is another indicator of attachment to conventional society, and a number of researchers have found that women with dependent children are favored at the time of sentencing (Crew, 1991; KoonsWitt, 2002; Spohn & Beichner, 2000; Steffensmeier et al., 1993).”
Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research (2012, background): “…at least three studies find minority females to be sentenced as leniently or even more leniently than white females (e.g. Kramer & Ulmer, 2009; Spohn & Beichner, 2000; Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2006), and discuss the implications of this finding for how black females, as compared to black…”
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Perceptions of the Police (2012, background): “Criminologists have consistently emphasized the differential treatment that males experience in comparison to females across the criminal justice system (Spohn & Beichner, 2000).”
Criminal Prosecution of Domestic Violence Offenses (2005, background): “…within domestic violence (Cramer, 1999; Davis et al., 2003; Dawson & Dinovitzer, 2001; Kingsnorth et al., 2001) and general offender populations (Spohn & Beichner, 2000), it is also expected that female defendants would be treated 624 CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR more leniently than their male…”
An Examination of the Interactions of Race and Gender on Sentencing Decisions Using a Trichotomous Dependent Variable (2013, methodology): “White male defendants also are viewed as less criminally involved and less likely than Black males to recidivate (Bridges & Steen, 1998; Spohn & Beichner, 2000).”