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Politics : The Judiciary
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From: TimF8/17/2010 11:55:41 AM
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Sexism in the Courts: Women and Prison Sentencing

by Ariel Goldring

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same criminal record be sentenced equally. But to what extend has sentencing followed this law?

According to research conducted by Supriya Sarnikar, Todd Sorensen and Ronald L. Oaxaca (via Barking up the wrong tree), “women receive more lenient sentences even after controlling for circumstances such as the severity of the offense and past criminal history.”

Investigating why this may be the case, Max Schanzenbach finds that judges are not displaying a pro-women bias, rather male judges are exercising paternalism:

The findings regarding gender in the case of serious offenses are quite striking: the greater the proportion of female judges in a district, the lower the gender disparity for that district. I interpret this as evidence of a paternalistic bias among male judges that favors women.

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