Thomas M Uhlman
Biographic Data
| ID | 981312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas M Uhlman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Uhlman |
| SIGNATURE | UHLMAN T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
He Takes Some of My Time; I Take Some of His: An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Patterns in Jury Cases
The jury has been widely credited with contributing to the best elements of the American judicial system. Utilizing computerized case histories of 29,000 felony defendants in an urban trial court, this article examines an important aspect of the jury process-judicial sentencing following jury trials. The data show that the sentencing cost of pursuing constitutionally guaranteed jury trial rights is high: jury defendants are punished with substant…
The Limits of Bail Reform: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
This study of bail reform in a large urban court employs an interrupted time-series research design spanning a six-year period, and examines case data for over 38,000 defendants. Two reforms-creation of a pretrial release agency and adoption of deposit bail-are evaluated to determine whether they had statistically significant impacts on the likelihood of pretrial release, the probability of financial losses for defendants, and the avoidance of bo…
Must We Bus: Segregated Schools and National Policy. Gary Orfield
Police Policy and Citizen Satisfaction: Evidence From Urban Areas
Black Elite Decision Making: The Case of Trial Judges
After decades of struggle to broaden black political, economic, and social leadership in the United States, an important question concerning this effort remains essentially unanswered. Given authority, have black elites responded differently than their white counterparts? This paper presents the first extensive study of black elite decision making. The behavior of 16 black trial court judges is the principal focus of analysis. During a six-year p…
Race, Recruitment, and Representation: Background Differences Between Black and White Trial Court Judges
D UUE TO a variety of historical forces, individual handicaps, and exclusionary practices, American blacks have been and currently still are underrepresented in the legal profession. Notable elsewhere, this underrepresentation is most severe at the capstone of the profession the judiciary.' Notwithstanding recent advances, the black bench remains a small but important and little understood political elite.2 While black judicial success is an achi…
Race, Recruitment, and Representation: Background Differences Between Black and White Trial Court Judges
Black Populations and School Integration--A Research Note
IN THE COURSE of a detailed investigation of North Carolina school integration 1967-1968, a potentially significant relationship was discovered between integration levels and the varying racial composition of areas within the state. Utilizing the 94 of 100 counties for which data were available, analysis revealed a strong, negative, curvilinear association between the extent of school integration and the percentage of blacks each county.' Several…
Black Elite Decision Making: The Case of Trial Judges
After decades of struggle to broaden black political, economic, and social leadership in the United States, an important question concerning this effort remains essentially unanswered. Given authority, have black elites responded differently than their white counterparts? This paper presents the first extensive study of black elite decision making. The behavior of 16 black trial court judges is the principal focus of analysis. During a six-year p…
He Takes Some of My Time; I Take Some of His: An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Patterns in Jury Cases
The jury has been widely credited with contributing to the best elements of the American judicial system. Utilizing computerized case histories of 29,000 felony defendants in an urban trial court, this article examines an important aspect of the jury process-judicial sentencing following jury trials. The data show that the sentencing cost of pursuing constitutionally guaranteed jury trial rights is high: jury defendants are punished with substant…
The Limits of Bail Reform: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
This study of bail reform in a large urban court employs an interrupted time-series research design spanning a six-year period, and examines case data for over 38,000 defendants. Two reforms-creation of a pretrial release agency and adoption of deposit bail-are evaluated to determine whether they had statistically significant impacts on the likelihood of pretrial release, the probability of financial losses for defendants, and the avoidance of bo…
Police Policy and Citizen Satisfaction: Evidence From Urban Areas
Race, Recruitment, and Representation: Background Differences Between Black and White Trial Court Judges
Black Populations and School Integration--A Research Note
IN THE COURSE of a detailed investigation of North Carolina school integration 1967-1968, a potentially significant relationship was discovered between integration levels and the varying racial composition of areas within the state. Utilizing the 94 of 100 counties for which data were available, analysis revealed a strong, negative, curvilinear association between the extent of school integration and the percentage of blacks each county.' Several…
Race, Recruitment, and Representation: Background Differences Between Black and White Trial Court Judges
D UUE TO a variety of historical forces, individual handicaps, and exclusionary practices, American blacks have been and currently still are underrepresented in the legal profession. Notable elsewhere, this underrepresentation is most severe at the capstone of the profession the judiciary.' Notwithstanding recent advances, the black bench remains a small but important and little understood political elite.2 While black judicial success is an achi…
Race, Recruitment, and Representation: Background Differences Between Black and White Trial Court Judges
Police Policy and Citizen Satisfaction: Evidence From Urban Areas
Black Elite Decision Making: The Case of Trial Judges
After decades of struggle to broaden black political, economic, and social leadership in the United States, an important question concerning this effort remains essentially unanswered. Given authority, have black elites responded differently than their white counterparts? This paper presents the first extensive study of black elite decision making. The behavior of 16 black trial court judges is the principal focus of analysis. During a six-year p…
Must We Bus: Segregated Schools and National Policy. Gary Orfield
He Takes Some of My Time; I Take Some of His: An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Patterns in Jury Cases
The jury has been widely credited with contributing to the best elements of the American judicial system. Utilizing computerized case histories of 29,000 felony defendants in an urban trial court, this article examines an important aspect of the jury process-judicial sentencing following jury trials. The data show that the sentencing cost of pursuing constitutionally guaranteed jury trial rights is high: jury defendants are punished with substant…
The Limits of Bail Reform: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
This study of bail reform in a large urban court employs an interrupted time-series research design spanning a six-year period, and examines case data for over 38,000 defendants. Two reforms-creation of a pretrial release agency and adoption of deposit bail-are evaluated to determine whether they had statistically significant impacts on the likelihood of pretrial release, the probability of financial losses for defendants, and the avoidance of bo…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (3 works) · Legal and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)