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Gender Disparity in Sentencing

2019· other· en· W3187795905 on OpenAlexaff
Jason T. Carmichael, Colby Pereira

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Women and Crime · 2019
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCriminal justiceCriminologySanctionsScholarshipPatriarchyPolitical sciencePsychologyEthnic groupLaw

Abstract

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A vast amount of scholarly literature has assessed the possibility that criminal sanctions administered in the United States are not simply a function of legal factors such as the severity of the offense or prior criminal involvement. Much of this scholarship has attempted to ascertain the extent to which extralegal factors such as ethnicity, class background, or gender influence the sentencing of criminal offenders. While some inconsistencies in the findings remain and methodological deficiencies plague some of the studies in this area, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the US criminal justice system considers legally irrelevant factors when determining the severity of criminal sanctions. In particular, gender differences have been widely reported. Studies examining criminal sentencing outcomes routinely report that women are treated less severely then men convicted of similar crimes. While many scholars explain such gender bias in criminal sentencing as evidence of patriarchy within the justice system, others suggest the bias may be attributable to family responsibilities rather than gender.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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