Examining Sentencing Patterns and Outcomes for White-Collar and Property Crime Offenders |
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Authors: | Michael Cassidy Carole Gibbs |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Niagara University, New York, USA;2. School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
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Abstract: | Guided by the focal concerns perspective, the authors examine effects associated with sentencing predictors on incarceration and sentence length decisions for offenders convicted of white-collar and different forms of property crime. Using seven years of data (2004–2010) obtained from the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, the authors compare direct and interaction effects of legal and extralegal covariates for white-collar, property economic, and property noneconomic offenders to assess similarities and differences in sentencing outcomes across these crime types. Results indicate more variation exists between white-collar and property noneconomic offenders, particularly in terms of age, race, and gender interaction effects on sentence length decisions. Substantive and theoretical implications are discussed. |
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Keywords: | sentencing focal concerns white-collar crime |
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