Citizenship and Punishment: The Salience of National Membership in U.S. Criminal Courts.

ABSTRACT: When compared to research on the association between immigration and crime, far less attention has been given to the relationship between immigration, citizenship, and criminal punishment. As such, several fundamental questions about how noncitizens are sanctioned and whether citizenship is a marker of stratification in U.S. courts remain unanswered. Are citizens treated differently than noncitizens-both legal and undocumented-in U.S. federal criminal courts? Is the well-documented Hispanic-white sentencing disparity confounded by citizenship status? Has the association between citizenship and sentencing remained stable over time? And are punishment disparities contingent on the demographic context of the court? Analysis of several years of data from U.S. federal courts indicates that citi

SUBMITTER: Light MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234017 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature