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Citation

Meyer J, Gray T. J. Crim. Justice 1997; 25(2): 155-163.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

To what extent are pleas and sentences of drunk drivers influenced by legal factors such as offense severity and priors versus extralegal factors such as race and gender? It was found that guilty pleas and sentences were based most heavily on offense severity. Pleas also were based on ethnicity with Caucasians more than twice as likely to plead not guilty. Although judges often fail to impose mandatory, sentences, the judges in this sample always imposed mandatory sentences on drunk drivers.

Language: en

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