The Negro Criminal A Statistical Note

Sellin, Thorsten

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“…Records of law enforcement during the migration, where they exist, are compatible with the claim that racial disparity in incarceration stemmed more from inequality in arrests than inequality in the length of prison sentences (Sellin 1928;Bowler 1931). In its 1922 report The Negro in Chicago, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922, p. 345, quoted in Sellin 1928 concluded: "The testimony is practically unanimous that Negroes are much more liable to arrest than whites, since police officers share in the general public opinion that Negroes 'are more criminal than whites,' and also feel that there is little risk of trouble in arresting Negroes, while greater care must be exercised in arresting whites."…”

Section: Migration As Threatmentioning

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Northward Migration and the Rise of Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1880–1950

Muller

2012

American Journal of Sociology

106

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Section: Migration As Threatmentioning

confidence: 67%

Northward Migration and the Rise of Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1880–1950

Muller

2012

American Journal of Sociology

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“…More specifically, this literature reports that older persons and women as well as evangelicals/fundamentalists and conservatives (Republicans) are significantly more punitive than their counterparts (e.g., Bohm, 1991;Flanagan & Longmire;Gerber & Engelhardt-Greer, 1996;Payne et al, 2004). This is not to say that these groups are necessarily more afraid of crime or criminals than their counterparts; however, the demand for punitive sentencing of criminal defendants seems significantly more likely in communities with relatively high rates of crime, especially violent crimes (e.g., Chambliss & Seidman, 1971;Hawkins, 1987;Liska, 1992;Sellin, 1928). Additionally, the link between community sentiment (demands for harsh punishment) and judicial sentencing behavior may be especially pronounced in communities characterized by relatively larger proportions of individuals with punitive attitudes such as older persons, women, evangelicals, and conservatives/Republicans, particularly in areas that possess higher rates of violent crime (possibly producing more fear among already punitive-oriented residential groups).…”

Section: Punitive Community Attitudes and Fearmentioning

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A Multilevel Analysis of Community Effects on Criminal Sentencing

Fearn¹

2005

Justice Quarterly

108

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This research examines the influence of several important community characteristics on the sentencing of convicted felony defendants, net of other predictors associated with sentencing decisions. Using an appropriate multilevel technique, I find that several community characteristics affect the likelihood that defendants are sentenced to prison versus jail. However, none of the community characteristics influence the odds of prison versus non-custodial sanctions or jail versus non-custodial sanctions for these defendants. This underscores the importance of using sentencing measures beyond the basic "in/out" dichotomy. Even more importantly, the results suggest that there remains a statistically significant and substantial amount of sentencing variation across counties after controlling for relevant individual-and community-level factors. The implications of these findings for research, theory, and policy-making are discussed.

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“…Contre Sellin (1928), qui fait de la disproportion l'indice de la discrimination, Garfinkel refuse d'assimiler la différence de traitement des Blancs et des Noirs à l'écart statistique par rapport à une norme de la répression moyenne. À ses yeux, le chiffrage de la réaction pénale ne peut épuiser la question de l'égalité de traitement : il a montré comment des traitements différents, réglés par des raisons distinctes, peuvent se traduire par des indices numériques équivalents.…”

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Le monde judiciaire selon Garfinkel

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2004

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1949 : H. Garfinkel publie dans Social Forces un article intitulé Research note on inter- and intra-racial homicides, lequel doit « en premier lieu, fournir des matériaux relatifs au traitement réservé aux auteurs blancs et noirs impliqués dans des homicides inter ou intraraciaux, et en second lieu, soumettre une hypothèse qui rende compte des particularités des données mises en évidence lorsque les différents indicateurs de traitement […] sont classés selon la race de l’auteur et de la victime ». Il y montre comment la différenciation raciale du travail pénal reproduit la structuration raciale de la société. Le monde judiciaire selon Garfinkel décrit dans un premier temps les termes et l’articulation de la démonstration à laquelle Garfinkel se livre dans cette étude. Dans un deuxième temps, il explicite le choix de raison où son interprétation de la différenciation raciale du travail pénal s’enracine, avant d’en tirer, dans un troisième temps, les implications pour l’étude du droit, du crime et de la discrimination.In 1949, Garfinkel published his famous article called Research note on inter- and intra-racial homicides, whose objectives were firstly to « furnish material dealing with the treatment of white and colored offenders involved in inter- and intra-racial homicides » and, secondly, to submit a hypothesis accounting « for the peculiarities of the data that [emerged] when the various indexes of treatment [were] categorized by race of offender and victim ». He showed that the racial differentiation of penal work reproduced the racial structure of society. This article describes, in a first step, the terms and articulations of the « demonstration » that Garfinkel operated in this text. In a second step, it makes explicit the choice of reasoning in which he rooted his interpretation of the racial differentiation of penal work. And, in a third step, it draws the implications for the study of law, crime and discrimination

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The Negro Criminal A Statistical Note

Cited by 68 publications

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Northward Migration and the Rise of Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1880–1950

Northward Migration and the Rise of Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1880–1950

A Multilevel Analysis of Community Effects on Criminal Sentencing

Le monde judiciaire selon Garfinkel

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