A Comparison of Defense Strategy and Race as Influences in Differential Sentencing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry E Kelly (University of Tulsa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-249 |
| Publication date | 1976-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1976.tb00015.x |
| OpenAlex | W2067233023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 3 |
This study compares the influence of defense strategy and the race of the defendant on the variance in felony sentence length for a sample of 2,090 convicts in a state penal system Defense strategy includes the subsequent plea of the defendant and the type of defense counsel. Control variables are age, marital status, urban‐rural childhood, education, prior criminal record, and type of crime. A comparison is made for both burglary and homicide. The findings for butglay show defense strategy explains 16.5% of the variance in sentence length (because of the type of plea), while race of the defendant explains only I% of the variance (due to the positive relationship between being black and sentence length). For homicide the unique explanation of the defense strategy model accounts for 3% of the variance (due more to type of attorney than plea), while the race of the defendant accounts for another 3% (because of the negative relationships between being Indian or Mexican‐American and sentence length )
Criminology · Economics · Homicide · Injury prevention · Plea · Poison control · Political science · Race (biology · Sentence · Sociology · Variance (accounting · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
Social Status and Sentences of Female Offenders
Symbolic Policy and the Sentencing of Drug Offenders
Research into the Aims and Effectiveness of Sentencing
Private counsels and public defenders
Tolerated contests? Plea and sentence in the Victorian magistrates' courts
Do you get what you pay for? Type of counsel and its effect on criminal court outcomes
Sentence length
American Indians and sentencing disparity
Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing
Race, Ethnicity, and Determinate Sentencing
Separate justice
Pleas, priors, and prison
Latinos/as in the criminal and juvenile justice systems
Just Another Crime? Examining Disparity in Homicide Sentencing
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2010 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |