in 2010, the united states sentencing commission published an analysis of federal sentencing data which examined whether the length of sentences imposed on federal offenders was correlated with demographic characteristics of those offenders.
in 2012, the commission updated this analysis by examining cases in which the offender was sentenced after the release of the 2010 report. the commission examined factors which include changes in sentence length for offenders of particular race, drug trafficking, firearms, fraud, gender pairings and the type of offense committed.
recently, the commission examined cases from october 1, 2011 to september 30, 2016. this new time period is referred to as the "post-report period." the commission also included data regarding violence in an offender's criminal history - which might help explain some of the differences in sentencing noted in their work.
some of the key findings are listed below:
black male offenders received sentences 19.1% longer than white male offenders in similar situations.
black male offenders were 21.2% less likely than white male offenders to receive a non-government sponsored downward departure or variance during the post-report period. when black male offenders received a non-government sponsored departure or variance, their sentences were 16.8% longer than white male offenders in similar situations.
black male offenders received sentences on average 20.4% higher than white male offenders in similar situations, accounting for violence in an offender's past in fiscal year 2016, the only year such data is available. this figure is almost the same as the 20.7% difference without accounting for past violence, which doesn't appear to account for demographic sentencing differences.
female offenders of all races received shorter sentences than white male offenders during the post-report period, as they had for the previous four years. the differences in sentence length decreased slightly during the five-year period after the 2012 booker report for most offenders.
i am
- mark j. tuggle
- harlem, usa
- same-gender-loving contemporary descendant of enslaved africans. community activist, feminist, health educator, independent filmmaker, mentor, playwright, poet & spiritual being. featured at, in & on africana.com, afrikan poetry theatre, angel herald, bejata dot com, bet tonight with tavis smiley, blacklight online, black noir, brooklyn moon cafe, gmhc's barbershop, klmo-fm, lgbt community services center, longmoor productions, nuyorican poets cafe, our corner, poz, pulse, rolling out new york, rush arts gallery, saint veronica's church, schomburg center for research in black culture, sexplorations, the citizen, the new york times, the soundz bar, the trenton times, the village voice, upn news, uzuri, venus, vibe, wbai-fm, wnyc-fm & wqht-fm. volunteered with adodi, bailey house, inc., black men's xchange-new york, colorofchange.org, drug policy alliance, east harlem tutorial program, imagenation film & music festival, presente.org, save darfur coalition, the enough project, the osborne association, the sledge group & your black world. worked on films with maurice jamal & heather murphy. writing student of phil bertelsen & ed bullins. mjt975@msn.com.
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