@article{ref1,
title="The Black effect: reimagining racial threat through a Black absolute status lens",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2021",
author="Henry, Tri Keah S.",
volume="67",
number="8",
pages="1241-1264",
abstract="Sentencing scholars have established the importance of examining how contextual-level factors influence judicial decision-making. Several studies have tested whether the presence of, or change in, minority populations--indicators of racial threat--impact disparate treatment of racial/ethnic minorities. Relying on these conceptualizations, however, ignores other important nuances of racial threat. The current study addresses this methodological limitation by employing a newly established comprehensive conceptualization of racial threat. More specifically, data from the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (FY2013-2015) are used to examine whether Black absolute status, a measure that taps into the sociopolitical position of Black citizens, influences the nature of racial disparities. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that Black/White sentence disparities may be moderated by the extent of Black absolute status at the county level.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/00111287211000625",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00111287211000625"
}