The Role of Gender in a Structured Sentencing System: Equal Treatment, Policy Choices, and the Sentencing of Female Offenders under the United States Sentencing Guidelines

Women Offenders and the Sentencing Guidelines

Alternative Sentencing : Statement Prepared for the United States Sentencing Commission

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before the United States Sentencing Commission regarding alternatives to incarceration. My remarks are intended as practical observations based on: (a) experience gained in my current position as Director of a community corrections program that provides reentry services to persons formerly incarcerated in Federal prisons, and that also serves as an altern...

the analysis of the role of the speech acts theory in translating and dubbing hollywood films

از محوری ترین اثراتی که یک فیلم سینمایی ایجاد می کند دیالوگ هایی است که هنرپیش گان فیلم میگویند. به زعم یک فیلم ساز, یک شیوه متأثر نمودن مخاطب از اثر منظوره نیروی گفتارهای گوینده, مثل نیروی عاطفی, ترس آور, غم انگیز, هیجان انگیز و غیره, است. این مطالعه به بررسی این مسأله مبادرت کرده است که آیا نیروی فراگفتاری هنرپیش گان به مثابه ی اعمال گفتاری در پنج فیلم هالیوودی در نسخه های دوبله شده باز تولید...

Sex-Based Sentencing: Sentencing Discrepancies Between Male and Female Sex Offenders

The current research examines the utility of the evil woman hypothesis by examining sentencing discrepancies between male and female sex offenders. National Corrections Reporting Program data are used to identify sex offenders for the years 1994 to 2004 and the sentences they received for specific sex offenses. Statistical analyses reveal a significant difference in sentence length between men ...

Gender, Race, and Sentencing

Race and gender pose empirical and policy problems that are both similar and different for the U.S. criminal justice system. They are similar in that blacks and women occupy subordinate social and economic positions in American life, and their interests are less likely to be represented in the justice system than are those of white men. They are different in that blacks are overrepresented in a...