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...Amy Ralston Povah © The Ohio State University Clemency Initiative Favored Male Repeat Offenders Over Women with No Prior Convictions Nothing sums up President Obama s Clemecy Initiative1 better than Charles Dickins passage from a Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst...

... studied.2 Among other ndings, the analysis showed that Black male offenders received longer sentences than White male offenders, and that the gap between the sentence lengths for Black and White male offenders was increasing. In 2012, the Commission updated this analysis by examining cases in which...

... immigration cases, we nd that such cases account for about 25 percent of the Black male White male sentence length disparity (as we de ne it), but immigration cases hardly change the disparity in the incarceration decision. 2. We are said to have excluded all offenders not receiving a prison sentence (p...

... and the results correctly stated. Based on this analysis, and after controlling for a variety of factors relevant to sentencing, the following observations can be made: x Black male offenders received longer sentences than white male offenders. The differences in sentence length have increased steadily since...

... data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Administrative Of ce of the U.S. Courts. characteristics such as education, income, demeanor, and location which might have accounted partially for the differing sentences among white and black males. Judge Effect The exercise of prosecutorial discretion...

... (161). Since 1995 two States had average annual prison population increases of at least 10%ÑNorth Dakota (11%) and Idaho (10.3 Massachusetts (Ð 1.8 Alaska (Ð1 and New York (Ð 0.2%) had decreases. Male and female incarceration rates stable from yearend 2000 to 2001 During 2001 the number of women under...

... DEPARTURE BY GENDER, FISCAL YEARS 1995Ð1999 340 320 300 280 260 240 220 200 180 160 140 120 100 1995 1996 1997 Fiscal Year 1998 1999 Female Male Source: U.S. Sentencing Comm iss ionÕs 1995Ð 1999 DataÞles, USSCFY95Ð USSCFY99. B. What Is ª Ordinarily Relevantº ? One of the most signiÞcant points of contention...

... Differences in Sentencing A key nding of the report is that d]emographic factors (such as race, gender, and citizenship) have been associated with sentence length at higher rates in the Gall period than in previous periods2 The report goes on to state that Black male offenders received longer sentences...

... to another and that these differences, in turn, produce unwarranted sentence disparity. To test this proposition, these studies divide the case data Þles into separate male/female or black/white defendant subsets before analyzing them. This enables the authors to statistically assess how the guidelinedeÞned...

... the presence of racial dis parity in sentencesÑboth imprisonment and Þne sÑfor white collar crimes. Cassidy M. Kesler, a current stude nt at Yale Law School, presente d he r Þnding s regarding the de mographic diffe rences be tween male and fe male offe nde rs sente nced in the federal system. Judge John...

.... Federal Sentencing Reporter Vol. 24, No. 2 december 2011 153 some demographic factors. Based on this analysis, and after controlling for a wide variety of factors relevant to sentencing, the data reflect that: o Black male offenders received longer sentences than White male offenders. The differences...

... lived with those children before entering prison.3 Unlike the children of male offenders, virtually all of whom live with their mothers during their fathersÕ incarceration, less than a third of the children who have an incarcerated mother live with their fathers.4 For the other two-thirds, imprisonment...

... the continuation of laws, policies, and procedures that facilitate those damaging results. The racial sentencing disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system are well documented by numerous studies highlighting that Black males bear the heaviest burden of sentence severity.26 The United States Sentencing...

... is no joke. No American institution is more sexualized than its male prison. Just ask a punk. He experiences imprisonment as an inmate whose rape and sexual exploitation becomes his master status one that is lived at the bottom of the prison s hierarchy of sex roles.10 Yet life at the bottom gives him unique...

.... However, juvenile records were much more common among Black defendants (10.4%) than among White defendants (4.3%) and for males (7.3%) than for females (1.6 The remaining analysis focuses on the 24,302 defendants who are identi ed as having at least one juvenile adjudication affecting their PRS (category...

... challenges faced by the judiciary Ð to recognize the real inßuences of social or biological gender roles on the lives of defendants without relying on gender-biased stereotypes. Since the adoption of the Guidelines, scholars and policy makers have debated the differing ability of male and female defendants...

... to control crime. Justice Kennedy, in his recent speech before the American Bar Association, directed attention to the remarkable scale of incarceration in the United States compared to other industrialized countries, the high proportion of African-American males incarcerated, and the high expenditures...

... and more probative Commission data. Several years worth of post-Gall data show that AfricanAmerican male defendants are 25.2 percent less likely than white male defendants to receive a non-government sponsored below-range sentence, after controlling for a wide variety of factors in a sophisticated...

..., racial inequality is rising, not receding. Law enforcement disparities continue to threaten fifty years of hard-fought civil rights progress. Almost one in three young black males is under some form of criminal supervision either in prison or jail, or on probation or parole. A Hispanic male born...

... found that in the period just before the Booker decision, controlling for relevant factors, black male offenders received sentences that were 5.5 percent longer than those for white males, whereas, in the period immediately following Booker, black male offenders received sentences that were 15.2...