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Stephen Demuth
Researcher at Bowling Green State University
Publications - 18
Citations - 3100
Stephen Demuth is an academic researcher from Bowling Green State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Ethnic group. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 17 publications receiving 2836 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Demuth include Pennsylvania State University.
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Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal Courts: Who is Punished More Harshly?
TL;DR: Using federal court data collected by the U.S. Sentencing Commission for the years 1993-1996, this article examined racial/ethnic differences in sentencing outcomes and criteria under the federal sentencing guidelines.
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Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender
Stephen Demuth,Susan L. Brown +1 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that adolescents in single-parent families are significantly more delinquent than their counterparts residing with two biological, married parents, although these differences are reduced once the authors account for various family processes.
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Ethnicity and judges' sentencing decisions: hispanic-black-white comparisons
TL;DR: The authors used data on Pennsylvania sentencing practices to compare the sentence outcomes of white, black, and Hispanic defendants and found that Hispanic defendants are the defendant subgroup most at risk to receive the harshest penalty.
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Does Gender Modify the Effects of Race–ethnicity on Criminal Sanctioning? Sentences for Male and Female White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants
TL;DR: This article examined the main and interactive effects of gender and race-ethnicity on sentence outcomes and found that female defendants receive more lenient sentences than male defendants and that black and Hispanic defendants receive less favorable treatment than white defendants.
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Racial and ethnic differences in pretrial release decisions and outcomes: a comparison of hispanic, black, and white felony arrestees*
TL;DR: The authors found that Hispanic defendants are more likely to be detained than white and black defendants, and that racial/ethnic differences are most pronounced in drug cases, which is consistent with a focal concerns perspective of criminal case processing that suggests Hispanics as a newly immigrated group are especially prone to harsher treatment in criminal case process.