Gender, Race, and Habitual Offender Sentencing in Florida

Bibliographic Data

ID9680147
AuthorsCharles Crawford (0000-0002-9009-5271, Western Michigan University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume38
Issue1
Pages263-280
Publication date2000-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb00890.x
OpenAlexW2015909161
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited9

This study explores the effects of race and gender on habitual offender sentencing in Florida. The sample consists of 1,103 female offenders admitted to the Florida Department of Corrections in fiscal year 1992–1993 who were eligible for sentencing under the habitual offender statute. Controlling for prior record, crime seriousness, crime type, and sentencing county contextual variables through logistic regression analysis, defendant race was found to be a relevant and statistically significant factor in the enhanced sentencing of female offenders. This factor was most noticeable with black female drug offenders and under structural contexts that were “high,” i.e., the percent of the population black, drug arrest rates, and violent crime rates. The race effects found with this sample of female offenders were often stronger than those in the Crawford et al. 1998 study of 9,960 eligible male offenders in Florida. The relevance of these findings is discussed

Criminology · Logistic regression · Political science · Population · Race (biology · Seriousness · Sociology · Statute · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

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