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A recent University of Michigan Law School study found large gender gaps favouring women in the criminal justice system. Women get get 60% shorter sentences even with similar criminal backgrounds as men. Female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration when convicted. Prior studies have reported much smaller sentence gaps because they have ignored the role of charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing fact-finding in producing sentences. papers.ssrn/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:48:40 +0000

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