An Examination of the Interactions of Race and Gender on Sentencing Decisions Using a Trichotomous Dependent Variable

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-86

  Freiburger, Tina L ^a   Hilinski, Carly M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disparity; race and gender bias; sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051930284     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128708330178     Document Type: Article

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