Live Breaking News & Updates on Social Worlds

Stay updated with breaking news from Social worlds. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

The Determinants of Sentencing in Pennsylvania: Do theCharacteristics of Judges Really Matter?

How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than whitejudges gave to white offenders. ....

United States , New Mexico , Republic Of , New York , El Paso County , Government Printing Office , District Of Columbia , University Of Chicago , University Of Maryland , Penn State University , Susan Welch , Joe Gorton , Janetl Lauritsen , Rodneyl Engen , Callie Marie Rennison , Paul Jesilow , Shawn Bushway , Malcomd Holmes , Joan Concilio , E Wilbur Bock , Sheldon Goldman , John Kramer , Hohn Gruhl , Anne Morrison Piehl , Herbert Kritzer , Wilbure Bock ,