Does gender modify the effects of race-ethnicity on criminal sanctioning? sentences for male and female white, black, and hispanic defendants

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-261

  Steffensmeier, Darrell ^a   Demuth, Stephen ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747660210     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-006-9010-2     Document Type: Article

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