Race Prejudice in the Administration of Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2199444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thorsten Sellin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1935 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 212-217 |
| Publication date | 1935-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/217058 |
| OpenAlex | W2093964744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
It would be denying to the judge the ordinary attributes of human nature to assume that he could render justice free from all preconceptions. The marked influence of race and nationality prejudice in the administration of justice is revealed through a study of the average length of sentences, definite and indeterminate, of foreign born, Negro, and white male prisoners received from courts in 1931 and commited to state and federal prisons and reformatories for adults in the United States. The great and relatively constant variations observed must be largely attributed to the human equation in judicial administration and as evidence that equality before the law is a social fiction
Administration (probate law) · Administration of justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Immigration · Nationality · Political science · Prejudice (legal term) · Race (biology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · White (mutation) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks, and the Law, 1870-1902
Youth Justice and Migration
Minority Youths and Juvenile Justice
The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing
Délinquance et immigration en France
Modeling Matters
Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
Racial Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines
Racial Profiling/Biased Policing
Judges’ characteristics and sentencing in Hong Kong
Evolution of Sentencing Research
Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States
Judges' Race and Judicial Decision Making
Race and Ethnicity Relative to Other Factors in Juvenile Court Dispositions
The Internal Structure of the Ghetto and the Criminal Commute
The Punishment Consequences of Lacking National Membership in Germany, 1998–2010
Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal Courts
Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Fifty Years of American Sentencing Reform
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) evidence and criminal trials
The Depravity Standard I
The Justice System and Sentencing the Importance of Race in the Military
Punishing the “Model Minority”
Ethnicity and Judges' Sentencing Decisions
Retracted
Neutralization Techniques
Delinquency and immigration in France
"Punishing the "Others
Separate justice
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2024 (54) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |