Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences

Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing: A Quantile Regression Approach PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION

The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 explicitly prohibits the use of demographic characteristics in determining prison sentence, yet researchers continue to find evidence of disparity in sentences on the basis of race, ethnicity and gender. We employ a quantile regression technique that estimates the black-white sentencing gap across the entire sentencing distribution, rather than only at the mean...

Waiver of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparity

Addressing Racial Disparities in Incarceration

This article reviews the current trends and impact of mass incarceration on communities of color, with a focus on criminal justice policy and practice contributors to racial disparity. The impact of these disproportionate incarceration rates on public safety, offenders, and communities are discussed. Recommendations for criminal justice and other policy reforms to reduce unwarranted racial disp...

The influence of Afrocentric facial features in criminal sentencing.

Prior research has shown that within a racial category, people with more Afrocentric facial features are presumed more likely to have traits that are stereotypic of Black Americans compared with people with less Afrocentric features. The present study investigated whether this form of feature-based stereotyping might be observed in criminal-sentencing decisions. Analysis of a random sample of i...

Establishment an international prison in order to Execution of criminal sentences of the International Criminal Court

However, the punishment of imprisonment has become the main response of domestic and international arsenals; But now one of the most important challenges facing the International Criminal Court is how to enforce its sentences, and especially the execution of imprisonment.according to the Statute of the Court, imprisonment is carried out through voluntary agreements with the receiving countries ...