Research Catalog

Title

Race and sentencing : a study in the Crown Court : a report for the Commission for Racial Equality / by Roger Hood in collaboration with Graça Cordovil, Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford.

Author

Hood, Roger, 1936-

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cordovil, Graça.
• University of Oxford. Centre for Criminological Research.

Description

xiv, 343 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Examines whether race is a factor influencing the sentences imposed on men and women in the English Crown Courts. Based on many cases, this study reveals a pattern of racial differences in the resort to custody, the lengths of sentences, and the choice of alternative punishments.

Subject

• Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Race discrimination > Great Britain
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Great Britain
• 86.43 criminal procedure law, criminal law sanctions
• 86.52 civil rights
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Race discrimination
• Race relations
• Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Social aspects
• Rassendiskriminierung
• Strafgerichtsbarkeit
• Strafjustiz
• Rassendiscriminatie
• Strafrechtspleging
• Rechtspraak
• Great Britain > Race relations
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

Statistics (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-343).

Contents

• Foreword / Michael Day -- 1. The Need for Research. 1.1. Race and the Prison Population. 1.2. Discrimination by the Courts: Facts and Beliefs. 1.3. Problems of Method: the Validity of Current Knowledge. 1.5. Plan of the Report -- 2. Approach and Method. 2.1. Choosing a Strategy. 2.2. Sources of Information. 2.3. The Sample. 2.4. Collecting the Data -- 3. Some Basic Comparisons of Sentencing Practices. 3.1. The Racial Composition of the Sample. 3.2. Variations in the Use of Custody between Courts Irrespective of Race. 3.3. Racial Disparities in the Use of Custody. 3.4. Variations between Judges -- 4. Did Case Characteristics Vary According to Race? 4.1. Overall Differences in the Characteristics of White as Compared to Black Defendants. 4.2. Characteristics of Black and White Defendants at Birmingham and the Dudley Courts. 4.3. Asian Defendants Compared with White Defendants -- 5. Comparing Custody Rates. 5.1. Which Variables were Linked to Race Differences in the Use of Custody?
• 5.2. Devising a Multivariate 'Matching' Method. 5.3. The Probability of Custody Scores. 5.4. Comparing the 'Custody Rates' of White, Black and Asian Defendants in the West Midlands Crown Courts as a whole. 5.5. Comparing Blacks and Asians as if they had been Treated Like Whites. 5.6. Attempting to Locate Where Racial Differences Occurred -- 6. Race and Varying Court Practices. 6.1. Comparing the Use of Custody at each of the Five Courts by Race of the Defendant. 6.2. Seeking to Locate the Race Difference amongst cases sentenced by the Dudley courts -- 7. Variations Between Judges. 7.1. The Status of the Judge. 7.2. Variations between Individual Judges -- 8. Length and Severity of Sentences. 8.1. Length of Sentences. 8.2. Accounting for the over-representation of Black Males in the Prison Population -- 9. The Range of Sentences and the Use of Non Custodial Alternatives. 9.1. Adults. 9.2. Males Under the Age of 21 -- 10. Pre-Sentence Factors. 10.1. How the Incident Came to Light.
• 10.2. The Effect of Having Been Remanded in Custody. 10.3. The Influence of Social Inquiry Reports -- 11. Sentencing Women. 11.1. Comparing the Sentences Imposed on Women of different Ethnic Backgrounds. 11.2. Comparing the Sentences Imposed on Females and Males -- 12. Discrimination in the Courts?

ISBN

• 0198258364
• 9780198258360
• 0198258402
• 9780198258407

LCCN

92026724

OCLC

• ocm26403172
• 26403172
• SCSB-2035075

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library