Gender, risk assessment, and sanctioning: The cost of treating women like men

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 580-593

  Skeem, Jennifer ^a   Monahan, John ^b   Lowenkamp, Christopher ^c  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Administrative Office   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; gender; risk assessment; sentencing; test bias

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; PSYCINFO; RECIDIVISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; GENDER IDENTITY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; OFFENDER; RISK FACTOR;

CRIMINALS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84984863572     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000206     Document Type: Article

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