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Systemic Bias in Sentencing and Risk Assessments : = A Systematic Review.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Systemic Bias in Sentencing and Risk Assessments :/
Reminder of title:	A Systematic Review.
Author:	Verduzco, Griselda.
Description:	1 online resource (80 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-08, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-08B.
Subject:	Ethnic studies. -
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ISBN:	9798381695809

Systemic Bias in Sentencing and Risk Assessments : = A Systematic Review.
Verduzco, Griselda.

Systemic Bias in Sentencing and Risk Assessments :A Systematic Review. - 1 online resource (80 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-08, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Alliant International University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Some data shows that potential racial injustice may exist in the United States concerning the operation of the criminal justice system. There is, for example, ample evidence that individuals from minority populations are likely to receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts. Additionally, there have been many well-known cases where White people have received lesser sentencing than their Black and Hispanic/ Latino counterparts. Risk assessments are a tool that is used in the criminal justice system to determine an individual's risk and likelihood of reoffending. There is a debate on their use in sentencing, with some prioritizing the crime's severity while others advocate for their predictive value. However, the inclusion of socioeconomic factors and ethnicity in most risk assessments has been criticized as potentially biased against minorities. Researchers argue there is a need for more research regarding race disparity and inequality surrounding risk assessments, and this dissertation utilized a systematic review to discover potential racial bias in risk assessment. This systematic review aims to explore whether there is racial bias in forensic risk assessments. A systematic review allows the opportunity to evaluate and statistically combine the themes of similar studies involving these assessment types. This researcher hypothesized that a significant bias would be found in risk assessments congruent with the current literature. After the inclusion and exclusion criteria, there were thirty articles chosen for this study. Variable characteristics of interest were broken down into categorical data and coded by the researcher utilizing two distinct coding manuals. A binomial was conducted on all variables with a chance level of .5 or .7. To ensure accuracy in this study, a .5 chance level was used as a conservative number for variables that did not have clear publication guidelines but were still necessary for the research. Additionally, this research followed the stricter .7 chance value per guidelines for reporting on ethnicity and race in medical and science journals. Many articles failed to report enough demographic data to compare risk assessments among different ethnicities, and over half of the articles analyzed had a population sample where more than half of the population was White. This discovery is concerning as it raises questions about the generalizability of the validity of risk assessments to other races or ethnicities. Another concerning finding was that many articles failed to follow the specific guidelines outlined for scientific articles when discussing ethnicity and race. These findings suggest strongly that journal publishers should enforce these stricter guidelines before publishing research studies. It is essential to impose more rigorous journal requirements to improve the quality of research.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381695809Subjects--Topical Terms:

809601
Ethnic studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Racial biasIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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