1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... and foreign-born white male prisoners within very broad offense categories. Sellin claimed that the data revealed "the marked influence of race and nationality prejudice in the administration of justice" (p. 212). He concluded that, in light of the prejudice against blacks and foreign born within the society at large, "it would be denying to the ... sentencing systems, social and legal scholars pressed for legislation that would replace indeterminate sentencing with a system that offered greater predictability in determining proper sentence dispositions and lengths of imprisonment (Frank...
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