County-Level Context and Sentence Lengths for Black, Latinx, and White Individuals Sentenced to Prison: A Multi-Level Assessment

Q1 Social Sciences

Criminal Justice Policy Review Pub Date : 2021-06-10 DOI:10.1177/08874034211021893

Katherine A. Durante

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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between race, ethnicity, county-level contextual variables, and sentence lengths for Black, Latinx, and White individuals sentenced to prison. Hierarchical linear modeling is used to examine the focal concerns perspective, the racial/ethnic threat thesis, socioeconomic inequality across racial/ethnic groups, political climate, and individual-level factors and sentence lengths. Data come from the National Corrections Reporting Program and other sources to examine sentences for over 500,000 individuals admitted to U.S. prisons between 2015 and 2017, from 751 counties. Results indicate that Black and Latinx individuals receive longer sentences than their White counterparts, even after controlling for relevant variables. The racial/ethnic threat thesis is not supported. Black individuals are sentenced longer than their White counterparts in counties with larger shares of Republican voters. Findings indicate that race and ethnicity continue to be salient predictors of punishment, with Black and Latinx individuals facing harsher outcomes than their White counterparts.

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黑人、拉丁裔和白人被判入狱的县域语境和刑期:一项多层次评估

本文考察了黑人、拉丁裔和白人被判入狱者的种族、民族、县级上下文变量和刑期长度之间的关系。层次线性模型用于检查焦点关注视角，种族/民族威胁论文，种族/民族群体的社会经济不平等，政治气候，个人层面的因素和句子长度。数据来自国家惩教报告计划和其他来源，该计划审查了2015年至2017年期间来自751个县的50多万名美国监狱囚犯的判决。结果表明，即使在控制了相关变量之后，黑人和拉丁裔个体收到的句子也比白人同行长。种族/民族威胁的论点没有得到支持。在共和党选民比例较高的县，黑人比白人服刑时间更长。研究结果表明，种族和民族仍然是惩罚的显著预测因素，黑人和拉丁裔人比白人面临更严厉的惩罚。

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Criminal Justice Policy Review Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： Criminal Justice Policy Review (CJPR) is a multidisciplinary journal publishing articles written by scholars and professionals committed to the study of criminal justice policy through experimental and nonexperimental approaches. CJPR is published quarterly and accepts appropriate articles, essays, research notes, interviews, and book reviews. It also provides a forum for special features, which may include invited commentaries, transcripts of significant panels or meetings, position papers, and legislation. To maintain a leadership role in criminal justice policy literature, CJPR will publish articles employing diverse methodologies.