1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... operative (e.g., stereotypes of the unemployed as lazy and irresponsible; stereotypes that link offending in the middle-class to situational factors, rather than to more enduring defects of character), and that they interact with race to produce more severe outcomes for poor minority defendants. In conclusion, sentencing research has come a long way since the days when researchers tested overly simplified conflict models and looked only for direct, main effects of race on ... sentencing outcomes. We now know that racial disparities in sentencing are contingent upon the interaction of ra...
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