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The Impact of Race and Gender on Sentencing for Mississippi’s Indigent Population

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  • Blakely Fox Fender

    (Millsaps College)

  • Carl Brooking

    (Millsaps College)

  • Lucy McNair
  • Dolly Mehta
  • Jared Eastlack
  • Brooke Pierce

Abstract

This paper examines the question of racial and gender disparity in criminal sentencing in Mississippi. To isolate the impact of race and gender on sentencing, economic, individual, crime, county and court-specific intervening characteristics are considered in the context of a multivariate model that incorporates both the probability that an individual is incarcerated as well as the length of the sentence. Results indicate that gender disparity is not present in Mississippi's criminal sentencing process, but racial disparity does exist.

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  • Blakely Fox Fender & Carl Brooking & Lucy McNair & Dolly Mehta & Jared Eastlack & Brooke Pierce, 2006. "The Impact of Race and Gender on Sentencing for Mississippi’s Indigent Population," Journal of Economic Insight, Missouri Valley Economic Association, vol. 32(1), pages 57-73.
    • Handle: RePEc:mve:journl:v:32:y:2006:i:1:p:57-73
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    1. Bekkerman, Anton & Gilpin, Gregory A., 2014. "Can equitable punishment be mandated? Estimating impacts of sentencing guidelines on disciplinary disparities," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 51-61.

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