1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... But 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 stages in processing and that reverberate through subsequent stages. Judges can only make sentencing decisions made by police (e.g., decisions to arrest versus release with a warning) or by the prosecutors (e.g., charging decisions, ... information has the potential to jeopardize an ongoing or future investigation. In some contexts, it is possible to identify a pool of cases that are eligible for a particular charge...
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