Racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing: What do we know, and where should we go?
Racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing: What do we know, and where should we go?
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量刑中的种族和民族差异:我们知道什么,我们应该去哪里?
DOI:
10.1111/hojo.12496
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2022
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Veiga A
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Veiga A
Strong evidence of racial and ethnic disparities has been documented in recent government‐led reports, suggesting the presence of discrimination in sentencing, with Black and ethnic minority defendants being systematically sentenced more harshly than their white counterparts. However, we still do not know how these disparities come about as most of the sentencing research has relied on quantitative designs focused on documenting the problem, rather than exploring its causes. In this exploratory study we use qualitative interviews with criminal law barristers to explore the different mechanisms that may give rise to these disparities. From our interviews we identified two predominant causal mechanisms: the differential consideration of mitigating and aggravating factors and indirect discrimination arising from defendants’ socio‐economic backgrounds and over‐policing. Based on these findings, we suggest effective strategies such as explicitly listing social deprivation as a mitigating factor in the sentencing guidelines and increasing judicial diversity for redressing these disparities.
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