TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1979//
TI  - Offender ethnicity and presentence decision-making: a multivariate analysis
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Holland, Terrill R.
A1  - Johnson, N. S.
SP  - 227
EP  - 238
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
N2  - Multiple discriminant analyses were performed to examine the sentencing recommendations of clinicians versus caseworkers for white, Mexican-American, and black male offenders, both before and after controlling for selected criminological characteristics of these ethnic groups. Though generally of small magnitude, discrimination effects favoring whites for relatively lenient case dispositions were larger for caseworkers than for clinicians and remained statistically significant only for caseworkers after holding constant criminological variables. The results are discussed in terms of the need for decreasing the discretion of decision makers through the use of guidelines that contain expected decision outcomes.   Keywords: Juvenile justice<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009385487900600302
ID  - ref1
ER  -