Rich Offender, Poor Offender: Why It (Sometimes) Matters in Sentencing

Sentencing Female Offenders in the Magistrate's Court: Preliminary Report on a Pilot Study1

IN AUSTRALIA, WHERE SENTENCING GUIDELINES ARE UNCOMMON, THE SEX of the offender is not officially a relevant factor in sentencing. However, as Fox and Freiberg (1985) note in their text on sentencing in Victoria, a bias in favour of women is 'well entrenched'. Numerous cases are cited in which the courts have stated that it was appropriate to apply a 'lower tariff for females' (p. 465). Appeals...

The impact of victim-offender familial relationships on capital sentencing outcomes

Sentencing drink-drivers: The use of dismissals and conditional discharges

The imposition of a mandatory period of licence disqualification does not apply to charges for driving a motor vehicle with more than the prescribed concentration of blood alcohol (PCA) that are dismissed or conditionally discharged under section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act (1999) or which, prior to 1999, had been similarly dealt with under section 556A of the NSW Crimes Act (19...

Sentencing outcomes of convicted child sex offenders.

This research examines the sentencing outcomes of convicted child sexual offenders from data collected over an eight year period. Multiple regression and nominal log linear regression are used to examine length of prison sentence, length of probation sentence, and whether the convicted offender is actually sent to prison or to probation. While many independent variables appear to be related to ...

Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior.

This research uses status characteristics theory to expand our knowledge of the effects of status variables (e.g., race, education) and emotional displays on the antecedents of sentencing - evaluations of offender dangerousness and offense seriousness. We present a theoretical formulation that combines three areas of status characteristics research - reward expectations, individual evaluative s...