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Persistent offender law : racial disparity, patterned offenses, and unintended effects / Nancy Rodriguez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodriguez, Nancy.
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice recent scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Recidivists--United States.
- Recidivists.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure).
- Preventive detention--United States.
- Preventive detention.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considering sentencing under persistent offender laws, Rodriguez examines the correlations between sentence and race and ethnicity. Her study uses sentencing data on repeat and third-strike offenders in Washington state to assess the effect of legal and extralegal variables on sentencing outcomes and the pattern of offenses committed. In addition, interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys throughout the state provide contextual information on the impacts of the law. Rodriguez finds that racial disparity is confined to specific offense types and mitigated by other legal variables.
- Contents:
- Crime control through sentencing severity
- Sentencing mechanisms and courtroom culture
- Three strikes law and racial disparity
- Methodology
- Analytical results.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-142) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-36130-1
- 9786610361304
- 1-59332-051-5
- OCLC:
- 232190154
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