The Role Extralegal Factors Have on Convictions

The Role Extralegal Factors Have on Convictions

    Presenter(s)

    Shane McGriff

    Comments

    Presentation: 1:20-1:40 p.m., Humanities 109

    Description

    The United States of America's justice system has grown to become a very flawed and biased system over time. There are issues in certain parts of the justice system that are more flawed than others, such as the connection between rehabilitation and mental health, and the 'mandatory minimum sentences' that come with certain offenses. Additionally, extralegal factors can be unintentionally used negatively to determine the sentence length for convictions. The possibility of these disparities leave room to disprove the idea that all men/women are treated equally under the eyes of the law. Research studies can pinpoint connections and patterns between sentence length and extra-legal factors. In this study I plan to examine the Survey of Prison Inmates from 2016 to do just that, to find these connection and patterns in the American prison system. For this study I will use a negative binomial regression to see the effect that each characteristic of the independent variables has on the dependent variable.

    Publication Date

    4-19-2023

    Project Designation

    Capstone Project

    Primary Advisor

    Mark Morgan

    Primary Advisor's Department

    Criminal Justice and Security Studies

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

    Institutional Learning Goals

    Scholarship

    The Role Extralegal Factors Have on Convictions

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