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The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
The criminal justice system confronted unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, court systems nationwide quickly instituted policies to enable criminal cases to proceed while protecting public health.
Heather M. Harris
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Big Data, Behavioral Genetics and Risk of Future Offending

open access: yesLaw, Technology and Humans, 2023
A convergence of trends in assessing the future risk of reoffending could result in morally questionable inputs into the criminal process. Advances in the analysis of DNA and increases in the availability of information about people gleaned from social ...
Armin Alimardani   +2 more
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Sentencing and penal practices : Is Scotland losing its distinctiveness? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter discusses sentencing and penal practices in ...
Tata, Cyrus
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Disrupting the Abuse-Prison Nexus: The Gendered Violence of Prosecution and Abolitionist Feminist Approaches to Social Care Work

open access: yesSocial Sciences
The vast majority of people in U.S. women’s prisons are survivors of interpersonal violence, a pattern that organizers and advocates have referred to as the abuse-to-prison pipeline.
Sid P. Jordan   +6 more
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Controversial issues of criminal liability and sentencing of persons with mental disorders

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2022
Background. Crimes committed by persons suffering from mental disorders that do not exclude sanity differ significantly from other socially dangerous acts in their subjective characteristics.
A.V. Yashin
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¿Cómo se juzga a las chicas en el sistema de justicia juvenil español? Un estudio exploratorio a partir de datos primarios

open access: yesRevista Española de Investigación Criminológica, 2023
Algunos estudios apuntan que las mujeres reciben un trato benévolo por parte de los jueces, mientras que otros muestran una respuesta penal más dura contra ellas.
Ana Páez-Mérida, Alicia Montero Molera
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Sentencing Vulnerability: Conceptualizing the Incorporation of Personal Characteristics and Experiences at Sentencing

open access: yesOsgoode Hall Law Journal
Social inequalities that lead to criminal conduct are often not considered in sentencing; individuals subject to structural inequities receive the same formal sentence as those convicted of like crimes irrespective of the latter’s social advantage ...
Adelina Iftene
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Enrico Ferri on the criminal process

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Law, 2022
The article examines the views of the outstanding Italian criminologist Enrico Ferri on various issues of criminal justice, expressed in “Criminal Sociology”.
Aleksandr A. Trefilov
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Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: a legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Sentencing disparity dominates in American scholarship and has been leading global research in past decades, however, few studies have addressed sentencing equilibrium across countries.
Moulin Xiong, Yiwei Xia, Xiaohong Yu
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