abstract: Gender disparity in sentencing outcomes has a long tradition in sentencing literature, with a substantial body of evidence indicating that women offenders are treated with greater leniency over male counterparts. The prior literature on gender and sentencing, however, has ignored broader social contexts within which judicial decision-making occurs. This dissertation attempts to address this limitation by dissecting the nature of gender disparity through ecological lenses. Using federal sentencing data for FY 2001 through 2010 and other complementary data sets, this dissertation, divided into two major sub-studies, has examined the roles of two social contextual variables, such as religioius and political conservatism, in producing gender differentials in sentencing outcomes. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Criminology and Criminal Justice 2015
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:34936 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Contributors | Kim, Byung Bae (Author), Spohn, Cassia (Advisor), Wang, Xia (Committee member), Wright, Kevin (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 214 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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