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HOW DEFENDANT CHARACTERISTICS AFFECT SENTENCING AND CONVICTION IN THE US
Title
HOW DEFENDANT CHARACTERISTICS AFFECT SENTENCING AND CONVICTION IN THE US.
Creator
Kuenzli, Payton, Edwards, Barry, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This research study analyzes whether or not there is any relationship between sentencing and conviction and certain defendant characteristics in the US legal system. In the midst of a time where the nation is strongly divided politically, the topic is often the center of research projects and discussions in academic journals. Specifically, this research explores the 3 characteristics- race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Within this article, multiple case studies from other journals are...
Show moreThis research study analyzes whether or not there is any relationship between sentencing and conviction and certain defendant characteristics in the US legal system. In the midst of a time where the nation is strongly divided politically, the topic is often the center of research projects and discussions in academic journals. Specifically, this research explores the 3 characteristics- race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Within this article, multiple case studies from other journals are cited in which research and experiments have suggested that these factors do have influence on both whether or not a defendant gets convicted or for how long the defendant is sentenced. With these cases in mind, we try to test the theory for ourselves in a survey experiment amongst college students. The survey tests cases with instances of academic dishonesty in university with the defendant characteristics being manipulated for race, gender, and socioeconomic status. However, the results were inconclusive of any sort of link between those characteristics and the "sentencing" in the study.
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Date Issued
2018
Identifier
CFH2000334, ucf:45740
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000334
THE CRIME OF COMING HOME: BRITISH CONVICTS RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION IN LONDON, 1720-1780
Title
THE CRIME OF COMING HOME: BRITISH CONVICTS RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION IN LONDON, 1720-1780.
Creator
Teixeira, Christopher, Beiler, Rosalind, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines convicts who were tried for the crime of ÂÂ"returning from transportationÂÂ" at LondonÂÂ's Old Bailey courthouse between 1720 and 1780. While there is plenty of historical scholarship on the tens of thousands of people who endured penal transportation to the American colonies, relatively little attention has been paid to convicts who migrated illegally back to Britain or those who avoided banishment altogether....
Show moreThis thesis examines convicts who were tried for the crime of ÂÂ"returning from transportationÂÂ" at LondonÂÂ's Old Bailey courthouse between 1720 and 1780. While there is plenty of historical scholarship on the tens of thousands of people who endured penal transportation to the American colonies, relatively little attention has been paid to convicts who migrated illegally back to Britain or those who avoided banishment altogether. By examining these convicts, we can gain a better understanding of how transportation worked, how convicts managed to return to Britain, and most importantly, what happened to them there. This thesis argues that convicts resisted transportation by either avoiding it or returning from banishment after obtaining their freedom. However, regardless of how they arrived back in Britain, many failed to reintegrate successfully back into British society, which led to their apprehension and trial. I claim that most convicts avoided the death penalty upon returning and that this encouraged more convicts to resist transportation and return home. The thesis examines the court cases of 132 convicts charged with returning from transportation at the Old Bailey and examines this migration home through the eyes of those who experienced it. First, the thesis focuses on convicts in Britain and demonstrates how negative perceptions of transportation encouraged them to resist banishment. The thesis then highlights how convicts obtained their freedom in the colonies, which gave them the opportunity to return illegally. Finally, the thesis shows that returned felons tried to reintegrate into society by relocating to new cities, leading quiet honest lives, or by returning to a life of crime.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003105, ucf:48297
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003105
American Siberia
Title
The American Siberia: or, Fourteen years' experience in a southern convict camp.
Creator
Powell, J. C., PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
The author's detailed account of the terrible conditions of the prison camps of North Florida and Southern Georgia in the post-Civil War era.
Date Issued
1893
Identifier
AAA3230QF00011/15/200108/04/200515713BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-11-15, FIPS12039, FCLA url 20020227, 49476526, CF00001561, 2559055, ucf:7756
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001561.jpg