Handbook on Punishment Decisions
Subtitle: Locations of Disparity
Contributors: Bradley, Mindy S.
Series: The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series; ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing handbook series
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Milton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781315410357; 9781315410364; 9781315410371
Subjects: Punishment; Handbooks, manuals; Imprisonment; Emprisonnement; Guides, manuels
Description: "Handbook on Punishment Decisions: Locations of Disparity provides a comprehensive assessment of the current knowledge on sites of disparity in punishment decision-making. This collection of essays and reports of original research defines disparity broadly to include the intersection of race/ethnicity, gendifer, age, citizenship/immigration status, and socioeconomic status, and it examines dimensions such as how pretrial or guilty plea processes shape exposure to punishment, how different types of sentencing decisions and/or policy structures (sentencing guidelines, mandatory minimums, risk assessment tools) might shape and condition disparity, and how post-sentencing decisions involving probation and parole contribute to inequalities. The sixteen contributions pull together what we know and what we don't about punishment decision-making and plow new ground for further advances in the field. The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series will publish volumes on topics ranging from violence risk assessment to specialty courts for drug users, veterans, or people with mental illness. Each thematic volume focuses on a single topical issue that intersects with corrections and sentencing research."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction; title: Part I Policy Choices and Mass Punishment; title: 1 What We Know, Do Not Know, and Need to Know About Sentencing and Mass Incarceration in the U.S. and What â#x80;#x9C;Sentencingâ#x80;#x9D; Research Could Teach Us; title: 2 Mass Probation and Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender Disparities in Supervision and Revocation; title: 3 Sowing the Seeds of Future Justice System Disparities: School Punishment and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; title: Part II Disparities in Pre-Conviction Processes; title: 4 Cumulative Disadvantage and the Geography of Racial Inequality in Criminal Punishment5 â#x80;#x9C;Escapeâ#x80;#x9D; From Punishment: Exploring the Sealing of a Criminal Record and Potential Disparities in Its Application; title: 6 Discretion in the Absence of Guidelines: Charge Bargaining and Sentencing for Felony Defendants in New York; title: 7 Perspectives Informing Defense Attorney Effects on Criminal Case Outcomes; title: Part III Disparities in Punishment Outcomes; title: 8 Focal Concerns Theory as Conceptual Tool for Studying Intersectionality in Sentencing Disparities: Focus on Gender and Race Along With Age9 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Female Offenders Adjudicated in Federal Courts: Explicating the Patterns of Disparities Using a Path Model; title: 10 Studying Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing: The Importance of Refining Ethnic Minority Measures; title: 11 The Relationship Between the Gender of the Probation Officer and Judicial Sentencing: Implications for Black Male Offenders; title: 12 Race, Facial Appearance, and the Focal Concerns of Sentencing; title: 13 Towards the Development of a Standardized Focal Concerns Theory of SentencingPart IV Risk: Race, Age, and Social Class; title: 14 Assessment of Offender Risk at Sentencing: A Potential for Disparity?; title: 15 Assessment Disparities After Federal Incarceration in Canada; title: 16 â#x80;#x9C;Objects of Concernâ#x80;#x9D; or â#x80;#x9C;Risky Young Offendersâ#x80;#x9D;? Assessment and Intervention With Children in the Public Care and Youth Justice Systems of England and Wales