Pina‐Sánchez, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-6022, Morales, A., Guilfoyle, E. et al. (2 more authors) (2025) Testing the interrelationship between area deprivation and ethnic disparities in sentencing. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25 (1). e12446. ISSN 1529-7489
Abstract
In the examination of sentencing disparities, hypotheses related to social class have been relatively overlooked compared to explanations centered on offenders' ethnicity. This oversight is regrettable as both factors often intertwine. In this study, we investigate the mediating and moderating effects between offenders' residential area deprivation and their ethnic background using administrative data encompassing all offences processed through the England and Wales Crown Court. Our findings reveal the following: (i) substantial ethnic disparities among drug offenders, but mostly non-existent across other offence categories; (ii) area deprivation does not explain away the observed ethnic disparities, but pronounced area disparities are found for breach and assault offenses, wherein offenders living in deprived areas are penalized compared to their more affluent counterparts; and (iii) ethnicity and area deprivation interact, but only for breach offenses.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Crown Court, deprivation, disparities, ethnicity, sentencing |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/W00738X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2025 10:15 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2025 10:15 |
Published Version: | https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/asap.12446 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221756 |