1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... for differential criminal sentences being imposed on racial and ethnic minorities. Early research on the role of race and ethnicity in criminal sentencing was more descriptive than theoretical. The methodologies involved in early studies were weak, and when theoretical explanations were offered, they often entailed unsophisticated notions of individual prejudice and racial discrimination. For example, Thorsten Sellin (1935 ... ) conducted simple comparisons of the average length of sentences given to black, native-born and foreign-born white male prisoners within very broad offense catego...
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