Cassia Spohn
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American criminologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cassia Cathleen Spohn is a Foundation Professor at Arizona State University, where she is also the director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Education Spohn attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she received her B.A. in journalism and political science in 1973, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science in 1975 and 1978, respectively.
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Published Papers
- THE IMPRISONMENT PENALTY PAID BY YOUNG, UNEMPLOYED BLACK AND HISPANIC MALE OFFENDERS (2000) (516)
- The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (1999) (305)
- CUMULATIVE DISADVANTAGE: EXAMINING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITY IN PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING† (2014) (297)
- THE EFFECT OF IMPRISONMENT ON RECIDIVISM RATES OF FELONY OFFENDERS: A FOCUS ON DRUG OFFENDERS* (2002) (297)
- Prosecutorial justifications for sexual assault case rejection: Guarding the "gateway to justice" (2001) (268)
- Is Preferential Treatment of Female Offenders a Thing of the Past? A Multisite Study of Gender, Race, and Imprisonment (2000) (243)
- Prosecuting sexual assault: A comparison of charging decisions in sexual assault cases involving strangers, acquaintances, and intimate partners (2001) (220)
- THE EFFECT OF RACE ON SENTENCING: A RE-EXAMINATION OF AN UNSE"TT'LED QUESTION (1981) (199)
- Race and disparities in sentencing: A test of the liberation hypothesis (1991) (194)
- The Criminal Justice System’s Response to Sexual Violence (2012) (177)
- THE IMPACT OF THE ETHNICITY AND GENDER OF DEFENDANTS ON THE DECISION TO REJECT OR DISMISS FELONY CHARGES (1987) (167)
- The effect of evidence factors and victim characteristics on prosecutors' charging decisions in sexual assault cases (1997) (163)
- The effect of offender and victim characteristics on sexual assault case processing decisions (1996) (161)
- Women as Policymakers: The Case of Trial Judges (1981) (151)
- Prosecutorial Charging Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases: Examining the Impact of a Specialized Prosecution Unit (2005) (141)
- The Sentencing Decisions of Black and White Judges: Expected and Unexpected Similarities (1990) (141)
- Criminal stigma, race, and ethnicity: The consequences of imprisonment for employment (2015) (140)
- ON THE USE OF THE TOTAL INCARCERATION VARIABLE IN SENTENCING RESEARCH (2004) (133)
- Crack-ing down on black drug offenders? Testing for interactions among offenders' race, drug type, and sentencing strategy in federal drug sentences (2002) (129)
- How do judges decide? : the search for fairness and justice in punishment (2002) (129)
- Rape law reform : a grassroots revolution and its impact (1992) (120)
- Prosecutorial Discretion: An Examination of Substantial Assistance Departures in Federal Crack‐Cocaine and Powder‐Cocaine Cases (2007) (120)
- Police Decision Making in Sexual Assault Cases (2013) (115)
- Drug Courts and Recidivism: The Results of an Evaluation Using Two Comparison Groups and Multiple Indicators of Recidivism (2001) (113)
- The influence of blame and believability factors on the processing of simple versus aggravated rape cases (1996) (104)
- Unfounding Sexual Assault: Examining the Decision to Unfound and Identifying False Reports (2014) (99)
- Rape Law Reform and Instrumental Change in Six Urban Jurisdictions (1991) (99)
- Gender and Juvenile Justice Decision Making (2006) (94)
- Gender and Sentencing of Drug Offenders: Is Chivalry Dead? (1999) (94)
- U.S. attorneys and substantial assistance departures: Testing for interprosecutor disparity (2009) (90)
- A tale of two counties: Unemployment and sentence severity (1998) (90)
- Race, Sex, and Pretrial Detention in Federal Court: Indirect Effects and Cumulative Disadvantage (2009) (86)
- Modeling the Effects of Victim Behavior and Moral Character on Prosecutors’ Charging Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases (2012) (80)
- Concerning Conceptualization and operationalization: Sentencing Data and the focal Concerns perspective— a research note (2007) (77)
- Gender and case processing decisions: A comparison of case outcomes for male and female defendants charged with violent felonies (1997) (76)
- Do you get what you pay for? Type of counsel and its effect on criminal court outcomes (2010) (69)
- Lawlessness in the Federal Sentencing Process: A Test for Uniformity and Consistency in Sentence Outcomes (2010) (69)
- Rape law reform and the effect of victim characteristics on case processing (1993) (68)
- Decision Making in Sexual Assault Cases:: Do Black and Female Judges Make a Difference? (1991) (66)
- Assessing the Differential Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Sentence Outcomes Under Different Sentencing Systems (2013) (63)
- The Impact of Rape Law Reform on the Processing of Simple and Aggravated Rape Cases (1996) (63)
- The sexual stratification hypothesis revisited: Testing assumptions about simple versus aggravated rape (2008) (62)
- Gender and the Social Costs of Sentencing: An Analysis of Sentences Imposed on Male and Female Offenders in Three U.S. District Courts (2006) (60)
- Race/Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes Among Drug Offenders in North Carolina (2008) (56)
- Unraveling the effect of offender citizenship status on federal sentencing outcomes (2011) (54)
- Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2015) (53)
- Women as Criminal Defendants: a Test for Paternalism (1984) (51)
- Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault: Inside the Criminal Justice System (2013) (51)
- The Effects of the Offender's Race, Ethnicity, and Sex on Federal Sentencing Outcomes in the Guidelines Era (2013) (51)
- The Dangerous Drug Offender in Federal Court (2013) (50)
- Sociolegal Approaches to the Study of Guilty Pleas and Prosecution (2016) (50)
- FEDERAL SENTENCING AS A COMPLEX COLLABORATIVE PROCESS: JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, JUDGE–PROSECUTOR DYADS, AND DISPARITY IN SENTENCING (2015) (49)
- WHEN DOES RACE MATTER (2000) (48)
- Sentencing: The Influence of Alternative Measures of Prior Record (1984) (47)
- Prosecutorial Discretion and Real-Offense Sentencing: An Analysis of Relevant Conduct under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (2004) (47)
- Race, Legal Representation, and Juvenile Justice: Issues and Concerns (2004) (46)
- Prosecuting Intimate Partner Sexual Assault (2015) (44)
- Defining Sentence Type (2007) (43)
- Sexual Assault Case Outcomes: Disentangling the Overlapping Decisions of Police and Prosecutors (2019) (42)
- Justice Denied? the Exceptional Clearance of Rape Cases in Los Angeles (2011) (42)
- “Victim Refuses to Cooperate”: A Focal Concerns Analysis of Victim Cooperation in Sexual Assault Cases (2017) (42)
- The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Gender on Substantial Assistance Departures in Federal Courts (2011) (40)
- Examining Charging Agreement Between Police and Prosecutors in Rape Cases (2010) (40)
- Criminal Stigma, Race, Gender and Employment: An Expanded Assessment of the Consequences of Imprisonment for Employment (2012) (40)
- When the Perpetrator Is a Partner (2017) (39)
- Convicting and sentencing differences among black, Hispanic, and white males in six localities (1985) (37)
- The Deterrent Effect of Imprisonment and Offenders' Stakes in Conformity (2007) (36)
- Evolution of Sentencing Research (2015) (36)
- Racial Disproportionality in the American Prison Population: Using the Blumstein Method to Address the Critical Race and Justice Issue of the 21 st Century (2008) (36)
- Racial Disparities in Prosecution, Sentencing, and Punishment (2014) (36)
- Does an Offender’s Age Have an Effect on Sentence Length? (2009) (36)
- Who is Punished More Harshly in Federal Court? The Interaction of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Age, and Employment Status in the Sentencing of Drug Offenders (2006) (36)
- Dismissal conviction and incarceration of Hispanic defendants: a comparison with Anglos and Blacks. (1984) (36)
- Sentencing Decisions in Three U.S. District Courts: Testing the Assumption of Uniformity in the Federal Sentencing Process (2005) (35)
- Interdistrict Disparity in Sentencing in Three U.S. District Courts (2010) (33)
- The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Sentence Length Decisions in Federal Courts (2009) (32)
- Reflections on the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion 50 Years After Publication of The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (2018) (29)
- Gang-Related Homicide Charging Decisions: The Implementation of a Specialized Prosecution Unit in Los Angeles (2011) (28)
- The effect of prior record in sentencing research: An examination of the assumption that any measure is adequate (1987) (28)
- Circumventing the Penalty for Offenders Facing Mandatory Minimums (2012) (27)
- Condom use during sexual assault. (2013) (27)
- Rape law reform (1992) (26)
- The non-prosecution of human trafficking cases: an illustration of the challenges of implementing legal reforms (2014) (24)
- An analysis of the “jury trial penalty” and its effect on black and white offenders (1992) (23)
- The Impact of United States v. Booker and Gall/Kimbrough v. United States on Sentence Severity (2016) (23)
- Evaluating the impact of prior record on judges' sentencing decisions: A seven-city comparison (1986) (22)
- RACE/ETHNICITY, GENDER AND SENTENCE SEVERITY IN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA: AN EXAMINATION OF THE DECISION TO WITHHOLD ADJUDICATION (1998) (20)
- “THE LAW'S THE LAW, BUT FAIR IS FAIR: ” RAPE SHIELD LAWS AND OFFICIALS' ASSESSMENTS OF SEXUAL HISTORY EVIDENCE (1991) (20)
- The Sexual Stratification Hypothesis: Is the Decision to Arrest Influenced by the Victim/Suspect Racial/Ethnic Dyad? (2019) (19)
- Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault (2013) (19)
- Adolescents’ willingness to vote for a woman for president: The effect of gender and race (1987) (18)
- The Truth Behind the Lies: The Complex Motivations for False Allegations of Sexual Assault (2014) (18)
- Sexual Assault Case Processing: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same (2020) (18)
- A model for teaching criminal justice ethics (1991) (18)
- Race, Gender, and Legal Counsel (2008) (16)
- "Fundamentally Flawed?" Exploring the Use of Policy Disagreements in Judicial Downward Departures for Child Pornography Sentences (2014) (14)
- Do the Drugs, Do the Time? The Effect of Drug Abuse on Sentences Imposed on Drug Offenders in Three U.S. District Courts (2013) (13)
- Unwarranted disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision (2011) (13)
- A Comparison of Sexual Assault Cases with Child and Adult Victims (1995) (12)
- Twentieth‐Century Sentencing Reform Movement: Looking Backward, Moving Forward (2014) (12)
- ASSESSING BLAMEWORTHINESS AND ASSIGNING PUNISHMENT: Theoretical Perspectives on Judicial Decision Making (2007) (11)
- Mitigating the Effect of a Criminal Record at Sentencing (2014) (11)
- Courts: A Text/Reader (2008) (10)
- Adolescents' attitudes toward women in politics: A follow-up study (1990) (10)
- The Role of Parental Status and Involvement in Sentence Length Decisions: A Comparison of Men and Women Sentenced to Prison (2018) (9)
- Adolescents' Attitudes toward Women in Politics: (1987) (9)
- Untested Sexual Assault Kits (2016) (8)
- Liberating Discretion: The Effect of Rape Myth Factors on Prosecutors’ Decisions to Charge Suspects in Penetrative and Non-Penetrative Sex Offenses (2018) (8)
- Why do Judges Depart? A Review of Reasons for Judicial Departures in Federal Sentencing (2018) (8)
- Final Report For The Evaluation Of Nebraska’s Serious And Violent Offender Reentry Program (2008) (6)
- Sentencing and punishment (2012) (6)
- Violence in Honduras from 2008 to 2018 (2020) (6)
- EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (2008) (5)
- Policing and prosecuting sexual assault: Assessing the pathways to justice (2014) (5)
- Prosecutors' Charging Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases: Important Lessons from Los Angeles (2012) (5)
- An Evaluation of the DRC in the Context of Douglas County, Nebraska (2007) (5)
- THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DRUG COURT: CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICIPANTS, CASE OUTCOMES AND RECIDIVISM (2004) (5)
- Life lessons: Examining sources of racial and ethnic disparity in federal life without parole sentences* (2021) (4)
- Crime and the social control of blacks: Offender/victim race and the sentencing of violent offenders (2018) (4)
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Female Offenders Adjudicated in Federal Courts (2017) (4)
- When the Bedroom Is the Crime Scene: To What Extent Does Johnson's Typology Account for Intimate Partner Sexual Assault? (2014) (4)
- Combating biased decisionmaking & promoting justice & equal treatment (2017) (3)
- Issues in Legal-Impact Research (1990) (3)
- The Rape Reform Movement (1992) (3)
- The Limits of Legal Reforms (1992) (3)
- Critical Race Perspectives: Explaining The Differential Treatment of Racial Minorities by the Criminal Justice System (2010) (2)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Crime (2011) (2)
- Justice Quarterly (2012) (2)
- Empirical Research on the Impact of Sentencing Reforms (2008) (2)
- Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century (2019) (2)
- Detectives’ Descriptions of Their Responses to Sexual Assault Cases and Victims: Assessing the Overlap Between Rape Myths and Focal Concerns (2022) (2)
- The Representativeness of National Advisory Boards: The Case of HEW (1980) (2)
- THE SUPREME COURTS POST‐MIRANDA RULINGS: Impact on Local Prosecutors (1981) (1)
- Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective (2012) (1)
- How do judges decide (2002) (1)
- The Role of Advisory Boards in the Policy Process: An Analysis of the Attitudes of HEW Board Members (1982) (1)
- Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century (2019) (1)
- Assessing Cumulative Disadvantage against Minority Female Defendants in State Courts by Kelsey Kramer A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science Approved July 2018 by the Graduate Supervisory Committee: Xia Wang, Chair (2018) (0)
- Reimagining Pretrial & Sentencing (2021) (0)
- An Examination of Risk-Taking Behaviors and Moral Character Issues on Sexual Assault Case Outcomes (2007) (0)
- Officials’ Attitudes toward Sexual History Evidence (1992) (0)
- Contextual Differences and Case-Processing Variations (1992) (0)
- Gender in the Courtroom Workgroup: Understanding the Relationship Between the Composition of Workgroups and the Gender Gap in Punishment (2022) (0)
- Officials’ Evaluations of Rape Cases (1992) (0)
- Rape Law Reform in Six Jurisdictions (1992) (0)
- Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court. By Renee Knake JeffersonHannah Brenner Johnson. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 304 pp. $30.00 hardcover (2021) (0)
- Rejoinder—Reply to Sutton (1987) (0)
- Discretion in the Federal Sentencing Process: Estimating Inter-judge and Inter-prosecutor Disparity Using Cross-classified Multi-level Modeling (2013) (0)
- The Direct and Indirect Effects of Offender Drug Use on Federal Sentencing Outcomes (2014) (0)
- Conceptualization and operationalization : Sentencing Data and the focal Concerns perspective — a research (2007) (0)
- The Impact of Booker and Gall/Kimbrough on Federal Sentencing: The Relationship between Discretion and Sentence Severity (2012) (0)
- CRIMINOLOGY TIE IMPACT OF RAPE LAW REFORM ON THE PROCESSING OF SIMPLE AND AGGRAVATED RAPE CASES * (2016) (0)
- Specialized Units and Vertical Prosecution Approaches (2021) (0)
- Developmental Perspective (2022) (0)
- Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces Initial Report (2017) (0)
- An Evaluation of New Mexico's Online Intake System for Civil Legal Aid (2018) (0)
- AB109 in California (2019) (0)
- Forensic medical examinations in sexual assault cases: Evidence from los angeles (2013) (0)
- The non-prosecution of human trafficking cases: an illustration of the challenges of implementing legal reforms (2014) (0)
- When the Bedroom is the Crime Scene in Los Angeles: To What Extent Does Johnson’s Typology Account for Intimate Partner Sexual Assault? (2012) (0)
- The Instrumental Effects of Reform (1992) (0)
- Jail Time or Prison Time: Which Factors Matter for the Sentence Length Decision using an Expanded Definition of the Total Incarceration Variable? (2006) (0)
- Women Lifers: What the United States Sentencing Commission Data Tell Us about Women Eligible for and Sentenced to Life Without Parole (2022) (0)
- THE ROLE OF ADVISORY BOARDS IN THE NATIONAL POLICY-MAKING PROCESS. (1978) (0)
- Crack-ing Down on Black Drug Offenders?: Testing for Interactions between Offender Race, Drug Type, and Statute Charged in Federal Drug Sentences (2002) (0)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- Policing Sexual Assault: Lessons Learned in Los Angeles (2019) (0)
- Editorial Board (2013) (0)
- Reforming Sentencing Policies and Practices in Arizona (2021) (0)
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