Racial Disparity in Sentencing: A Review of the Literature

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Author(s)

• Kansal, Tushar

Source(s)

• The Sentencing Project (Washington, DC)

Details

Published 2005. 17 pages.

Related Topics

• Sentencing disparity (Justice System)
• Sentencing disparity (Statistics &Research)
• Sentencing research/evaluation (Justice System)
• Sentencing research/evaluation (Statistics &Research)

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