K B Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 10928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K B Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | K B |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Relationship Between Type of Attorney and Bail Amount Set for Hispanic Defendants
This research empirically examines the difference that type of counsel, public or private, makes in the bail amount set for Hispanic defendants. Data were collected on all felony defendants assigned to the district court in a midwestern county. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that Hispanic defendants who retain the assistance of private counsel will receive lower bail amounts than defendants assigned a court-appointed attorney. Several ind…
Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Justice Texts
The authors reviewed 18 criminal justice and 13 policing texts published since 2000 to explore the amount of coverage these texts give to the relationship between slavery, slave patrols, and the early American criminal justice system. To provide a basis for comparison, 14 introductory texts published in the 1970s were also reviewed. We found coverage of topics related to slavery to be nearly nonexistent in the 1970s texts and to be perfunctory in…
Race as a Factor in the Judicial Decision of Bail Amount in a Midwestern Jurisdiction
Data collected on all felony defendants during 1996 from a district court in a Midwestern county were examined for racial differences in the setting of bail. While we hypothesized that African Americans would receive higher bail amounts than whites, we found no independent effect of race on bail amounts either before or after applying controls for legal variables-seriousness of offense and prior arrests-and extralegal variables-sex, age, residenc…
Coppin' an attitude
Coppin' an attitude
The Relationship Between Type of Attorney and Bail Amount Set for Hispanic Defendants
This research empirically examines the difference that type of counsel, public or private, makes in the bail amount set for Hispanic defendants. Data were collected on all felony defendants assigned to the district court in a midwestern county. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that Hispanic defendants who retain the assistance of private counsel will receive lower bail amounts than defendants assigned a court-appointed attorney. Several ind…
Coppin' an attitude
Race as a Factor in the Judicial Decision of Bail Amount in a Midwestern Jurisdiction
Data collected on all felony defendants during 1996 from a district court in a Midwestern county were examined for racial differences in the setting of bail. While we hypothesized that African Americans would receive higher bail amounts than whites, we found no independent effect of race on bail amounts either before or after applying controls for legal variables-seriousness of offense and prior arrests-and extralegal variables-sex, age, residenc…
Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Justice Texts
The authors reviewed 18 criminal justice and 13 policing texts published since 2000 to explore the amount of coverage these texts give to the relationship between slavery, slave patrols, and the early American criminal justice system. To provide a basis for comparison, 14 introductory texts published in the 1970s were also reviewed. We found coverage of topics related to slavery to be nearly nonexistent in the 1970s texts and to be perfunctory in…
The Relationship Between Type of Attorney and Bail Amount Set for Hispanic Defendants
This research empirically examines the difference that type of counsel, public or private, makes in the bail amount set for Hispanic defendants. Data were collected on all felony defendants assigned to the district court in a midwestern county. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that Hispanic defendants who retain the assistance of private counsel will receive lower bail amounts than defendants assigned a court-appointed attorney. Several ind…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)