One study found that men receive 63% longer sentences than women

havingread · 2013-10-20T21:15:59+00:00

For others looking for it: "After controlling for the arrest offense, criminal history, and other prior characteristics"

dejour · 2013-10-21T00:10:24+00:00

The actual study is linked in the article.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002

2013-10-21T02:52:41+00:00

Why is it that people assume the government is a moral, fair and just institution? Theses judges are just people. People with really sexist opinions. There is no justice whatsoever in the court system. It is in fact a "criminal" justice system.

StoicSophist · 2013-10-20T21:26:36+00:00

The obvious solution is to get more female judges, since they're less likely to give women lighter sentences than men.

2013-10-20T20:46:09+00:00

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trichomesRpleasant · 2013-10-21T02:55:54+00:00

No joke. I did 5 days once and made friends with the trustee who told me that there are only 4 beds for females and 8 for males.

downvoted_by_lefties · 2013-10-21T18:10:35+00:00

Hmm, I hate these studies because there are so many factors that go into sentencing and you can't control for all them. For instance, I would bet women are (or act like they are) more remorseful for their crimes than men. I would bet men are more likely to try to represent themselves than women. I bet the nature of male crimes are more violent, even if you control for the arrest offense.

Factors like those can make a big difference in your prison sentence.

rightsbot · 2013-10-20T20:02:17+00:00

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StarPhoxTheJunglist · 2013-10-20T21:22:36+00:00

I was talking a little about this to my dad and a few things occurred to me during the course of the conversation. The first is that this statistic is an average that doesn't take into account any outlying factors that could affect the sentencing. (Whether the person was married or single with or without kids socioeconomic standing etc) and is sort of unreliable as an indicator of bias. What my dad came up with is that judges will probably have more leniency on single moms (for the good of children) than single men without children and because most single parents are mothers it makes it look like women as a whole are treated better as a group.

If this study showed that single women and single men (with most other factors accounted for) were incarcerated at different rates it would be a clear indicator of gender bias but as it is only an average it is misleading by it's nature.

Title	One study found that men receive 63% longer sentences than women
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Date	October 20, 2013 8:01 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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