Differential treatment of incarcerated female offenders : the interactive effects of race, familial status, and type of crime on length of sentence /
and marital status had no effect on sanctioning at
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | and marital status had no effect on sanctioning at and type of crime did condition the sanctioning of by researchers at Texas A&M University, to examine the Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and carried out committed drug offenses. These findings suggested that determine what factors result in discriminatory effects conditioned by the race of the female female felony offenders, in the state of Texas. More female offenders and these effects varied according to funded by the Texas Hispanic women were sanctioned more severely when they interactive effectsof race, familial status, and type more research is needed in this area, in order to of crime on the length of sentence handed down to of women based on the marital statuses they held, the offender. It was found that the presence of children presence of children, their economic dependency, and specifically, it asked if there were differences in systems. the race of the offender. More specifically, black and the sanctioning (in terms of sentence length received) the type of crime they committed, and were these this stage of processing. However, economic dependency This study used self-report dab, obtained in a study phics. treatment of women offenders in the criminal justice were economically dependent on welfare and when they |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Sociology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 71 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66). |