Commission Finds Racial Disparity In Jail Sentences.Presents the results of a report on the sentencing-guideline system in the U.S., released by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.EBSCO_bspWall Street Journal - Eastern EditionFieldsGary
Racial and ethnic wealth disparities are substantial and persistent in the United States (Chiteji & Hamilton, 2002; Conley, 2000; Oliver & Shapiro, 2006). The largest wealth disparity is between Black and White Americans, with White Americans having six times the per capita wealth of Black Amer...
Race Disparities In Sentencing Case Study You brought up how jurors are more likely to find a defendant guilty when the defendant is a different race, and the victim is the same race as the juror, which creates a problem if race is being viewed as a primary factor in the case. Unfortunat...
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines have contributed to the mass number of African-American males in jail and prison. This chapter reveals that African-American males continue to face police brutality and disparity in the death penalty systems. This chapter offers compelling evidence that every African-...
An estimated 10.70% (95% CI, 9.26%-12.53%) of the racial and ethnic disparity in physical restraint use experienced by non-Hispanic Black patients was mediated by police transportation. All values were found to be significant at P < .001. This mediation analysis was completed while adj...
racial disparity appears whenever there is a significantly larger percentage of members of a racial/minority group involved in a part of the criminal justice system than whites. For instance, more than 9 percent of all African‐American adult males are in jail or prison or on probation or ...
摘要: Presents a study which examined the racial disparity in competency to stand trial between White and African American retarded patients. Discussion on the competency of mentally retarded offenders to stand trial; Methodology of the study; Results and discussion....
A demographic expert who examined the data described the odds of this disparity's occurring by chance as "less than one in one quintillion." A similar study conducted in New Jersey in 1994–95 showed that on the southern section of the New Jersey Turnpike cars with black occupants represented...
years, and, at one site, racial disparity in discipline was eliminated by the second year of RJ implementation.2 Initiatives Addressing Race-Based Historical Harms As noted, restorative strategies are emerging to ameliorate racial inequities involving interpersonal harm in schools and the justice system...
, 69(2), 151-169. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3593082 TheSentencingProject.org (2008).Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System; A Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers.Retrieved from http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_reducingracialdisparity.pdf...