International defendants in federal criminal court : an examination of racial, ethnic, and citizenship status disparity in sentencing outcomes
The use of extra-legal factors in determining criminal sentences has long been a topic of interest to criminologists. Research on sentencing guidelines has consistently found unwarranted disparities related to defendants' ethnoracial identity, but there is limited research on the effects of def...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/17294 |