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NCJ Number: 71068 Add to Shopping cart Find in a Library
Title: Hispanic Experience of Criminal Justice
Author(s): P L Sissons
Date Published: 1979
Annotation: Data from a Federal court are used to determine whether or not the Hispanic offenders' involvement in the criminal justice system is different from that of offenders of other origins.
Abstract: A conceptual framework for developing alternative perspectives of the Hispanic experience in criminal justice is explored. Several theoretical approaches to the interaction between Hispanic and other cultural groups have been developed, but none has provided a satisfactory basis for understanding the importance of ethnicity for the Hispanic clients of the courts, the prisons, and the probation and parole systems. Hispanic involvement in criminal justice is examined through a consideration of official data and publicly available statistics. Much of the description relates to the New York Puerto Rican community, focusing upon the correctional institutions which offer the most complete and reliable data. The third chapter reviews literature concerned with the influence of ethnicity on criminal court decisionmaking and empirically examines the sentences given to Puerto Ricans and other Hispanic offenders in a Federal district court in New York City. The final chapter summarizes conclusions, which point to major social dilemmas prevailing in Hispanic communities and suggest that a concern with Hispanic cultural experience of the law in American society is long overdue. Recommendations are directed toward filling gaps in knowledge, and they call for extended research.Sixteen tables of data and approximately 80 references are provided. (Author abstract modified)
Index Term(s): Discrimination; Ethnic groups; Federal courts; Hispanic Americans; Judicial discretion; Minorities; New York; Puerto Ricans; Sentencing disparity
Grant Number: IRO1 MH 30569-03
Sponsoring Agency: Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare
Rockville, MD 20852
Corporate Author: Fordham University
Hispanic Research Ctr
United States of America
Sale Source: Fordham University
Hispanic Research Ctr
Bronx, NY 10458
United States of America
Page Count: 92
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Note: Monograph Series Three
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