1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... variables such as defendant criminal history and offense seriousness, that Black and Hispanic defendants were generally sentenced more harshly than white defendants. While they found that legal factors were the strongest predictors of sentencing outcomes, race continued to have a modest, but statistically significant effect. That is, racial differences persisted, and this persistence is difficult to understand ... 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 ra...
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