This position paper explores information on military background and mental health status of criminal defendants. Focusing on Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the link between military service, post-traumatic stress disorder and criminal behavior is thoroughly examined. De…
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This thesis is about achieving local procedural legitimacy through fair, culturally relevant sentencing procedures. Its scope, is reconciling international due process guarantees and a traditional notion of rights, in sentencing procedures of the International Criminal Court. My…
The concept of ‘social supply’ has emerged as a term used both in the UK, and internationally, to describe drug distribution that is non-commercially motivated and almost exclusively found between friends and acquaintances. Social suppliers have increasingly been presented as ac…
Throughout U.S. history, persistent negative stereotypes about immigrants have abounded in public discourse, leading to negative outcomes for people without U.S. citizenship across social and economic life. Stereotypes such as these are also known to impact the discretionary dec…
Research on sentencing outcomes have concentrated on disparities between gender and race with a range of influences in legal decision making. This study was an examination of whether the same form of sentencing inconsistency is found with offenders who were convicted of drug off…
Youth with trauma histories and child welfare involvement are disproportionately transferred to criminal court and receive harsher sanctions than justice-involved youth without such histories. Little is known about factors that contribute to these sentencing disparities. While 4…