The Influence of Detailed Offender Characteristics on Consecutive Criminal Processing Decisions in the Netherlands

H. Wermink; B. D. Johnson; J. W. De Keijser; A. J. E. Dirkzwager; J. Reef; P. Nieuwbeerta

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The Influence of Detailed Offender Characteristics on Consecutive Criminal Processing Decisions in the Netherlands

H. Wermink, B. D. Johnson, J. W. De Keijser, A. J. E. Dirkzwager, J. Reef, P. Nieuwbeerta

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Abstract

Recent scholarship on sentencing disparity emphasizes the need to consider
multiple decision-making points, to incorporate more detailed information
on offender background characteristics, and to examine disparity in broader
international contexts. This study investigates both pretrial and final sentencing
decisions, incorporating a broad array of theoretically relevant offender
characteristics. It combines rich survey data with official sentencing data. This
data collection is part of a larger project, the Prison Project, in which 1,904
Dutch pretrial detainees were interviewed. Results indicate that several different
offender characteristics exert important independent effects over criminal
processing decisions and that pretrial release exerts a powerful influence over
final sentencing decisions. These findings contribute to ongoing scholarly debates
over the key determinants of criminal punishment in international context.

Original language	English
Journal	Crime and Delinquency
Volume	63
Issue number	10
Early online date	27 Jan 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128715624929
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017

Keywords

pretrial release
sentencing
offender characteristics
disparity
punishment

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