1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... could render justice free from all preconceptions" (ibid.). In 2004, Mitchell and Mckenzie conducted a formal meta-analysis of 85 different studies on race and sentencing. They concluded, after taking into account legally relevant 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 ... even if judges' sentencing decisions are wholly unaffected by race, racial inequities in sentencing outcomes can occur by virtue of biases that were introduced at earlier ...
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- Grade Level: Graduate