Sentencing Disparity - Who Has it Worse? Men or Women?

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2024-09-01 20:35

Article here. Excerpt:

'We have heard about the sentencing disparity between Blacks and Whites with Blacks getting longer sentences for the same crime. But have you ever heard of a sentencing disparity based on sex? This video has a look at the ground breaking research of Sonja Starr, from the University of Chicago. She outlines a shocking series of discriminations faced by men.

The study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002

There was a Michigan Law article on the study four years ago but it seems to have been taken down.'

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