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The central questions of this dissertation are threefold: First, are female criminal defendants punished more leniently than male defendants? Second, have gender-based disparities in criminal sentencing changed over time? Last, do male and female judges vary in their sentencing …

The number of mentally ill individuals within our criminal justice system has increased since the time of deinstitutionalization in America. While there has been numerous studies on public perception of offenders and public perceptions of mentally ill individuals, there are a li…