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  • How much time? Indigenous status and the sentenced imprisonment term decision in New South Wales

    Author(s)
    Bond, Christine
    Jeffries, Samantha
    Weatherburn, Don
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Jeffries, Samantha J.
    Bond, Christine E.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Using administrative data from the higher and lower courts of New South Wales, this study examines whether Indigeneity: (a) exerts a direct effect on length of imprisonment term once other relevant sentencing variables are taken into account; (b) interacts with other relevant sentencing variables to influence prison length. Results show that being Indigenous significantly reduces the length of sentenced prison term in the lower courts but has no significant effect at the higher court level. Further, evidence of interactive effects by Indigenous status was scant. Only age differed significantly between Indigenous and ...
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    Using administrative data from the higher and lower courts of New South Wales, this study examines whether Indigeneity: (a) exerts a direct effect on length of imprisonment term once other relevant sentencing variables are taken into account; (b) interacts with other relevant sentencing variables to influence prison length. Results show that being Indigenous significantly reduces the length of sentenced prison term in the lower courts but has no significant effect at the higher court level. Further, evidence of interactive effects by Indigenous status was scant. Only age differed significantly between Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders at both court levels. In this case age had no effect on the length of sentence imposed on Indigenous defendants in the lower courts or higher courts but increased sentence length for non-Indigenous offenders at both court levels.
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    Journal Title
    Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865811405127
    Subject
    Courts and Sentencing
    Criminology
    Psychology
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53107
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