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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"harsher punishments"”.
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Juvenile Justice Sentencing: Are There Alternatives?
… implemented juvenile justice reforms to enact harsher punishments, to transfer greater numbers and younger juvenile offenders to adult criminal court, and to restrict discretion of the juvenile court judges. Social science studies have found that harsher punishments, transfers to adult criminal …
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Court Actor Decision-Making: The Influence of Victim Characteristics on Legal Outcomes in Cases of Bias Homicide
… states in America have passed laws permitting harsher punishments for those convicted of hate (or bias) crimes, there has been no research to date on the adjudication of these defendants, including how legal and extralegal attributes of bias crime shape prosecutorial and judicial …
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The Disobedient Prisoner: A Racial Comparison of the Level of Punishment Prescribed to Inmates for Rule Violations
… led to the hypothesis that Black inmates receive harsher punishments than White inmates when they violate a rule while in prison. A cross-sectional study, "Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2004," which was available through ICPSR, was used in order to test the …
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The effect of racial confirmation biases on whistleblowing intent
… same wrongdoing, and more likely to recommend a harsher punishment. It was also predicted that when the level of harm to another was high versus low, the likelihood of reporting the wrongdoing and the suggested punishment severity would also be high, and the race of the coworker would play less …
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A Portrayal of Gender and a Description of Gender Roles in Selected American Modern and Postmodern Plays.
… their behaviors, and female characters received harsher punishments for deviant behaviors than male characters. Gender portrayal in Modern plays was more in keeping with traditional patterns than in Postmodern plays. Female playwrights presented more diverse roles for female characters and often …
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Incomplete information games of conflict and collective action
… the frequency of protest. Punishment Dilemma 1: harsher punishments may increase the probability that punishment is materialized. That is, as the state increases the punishment for dissent, it might also have to punish more dissidents. It is only when the punishment is sufficiently harsh, that …
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Realities of the Black school girl: The implication of adultification bias in K-12 schools
… adultification bias which leads to unfair punishments and sexual assumptions; Lack of diversity and equity in K-12 education contributes to differing support for Black girls; Black women, who were adultified as children, suffer long-term consequences of adultification bias. These results …