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Thanks for the tip, the actual studies cited by the article you link to state: "Pre-charge characteristics, including arrest offense and criminal history, can

• mpweiher 10y ago
  Reading really, really helps. Sigh. The study you linked is titled "Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences", says so right at the top, you just have to read it. It is not the study talked about in the press-release I linked to. It is referenced in said press-release as the "previous study" that found racial disparities, which were found to be 6 times smaller than the gender disparities found in the study that the press release is about. Which is this one: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002
  • nostrebored 10y ago
    You're right, sorry, I was hasty in reading the linked materials. Here is another contradictory study [1], along with a link to an ABA article explaining why some differences in sentencing should not only be expected, but potentially encouraged [2]. 1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1993.tb01136.x/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1993.... 2. http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_magazine_home/crimjust_cjmag_16_1_wald.html http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_mag...