Sharing the Current Status of Sentencing Research

Prompt: For the discussion this week, you need to familiarize yourself with the literature about race and sentencing. There is a vast amount of research out there about racial disparity in sentencing. You are required to 1) find and 2) summarize one scholarly article (NOT news!!!) about this subject. The article that you use for this should be published recently (within the past 5 years). I suggest that you use either Google Scholar or the UHD Library search engine to search for an academic article – there are preference settings that you can use to help make sure you find an article from the right time frame and to ensure that it is a peer-reviewed scholarly article. Additionally, make sure you use good search words/phrases such as “sentencing disparity”, “race and sentencing”, “African-American sentencing”, “Hispanic sentencing”, etc. to yield the best results. After you have found and read the article, provide a short one paragraph summary of the main points to share with the rest of the class. ***Note, DO NOT simply copy-paste the abstract. Please make sure to use your own words to summarize the article to avoid plagiarism. Again, DO NOT USE A NEWS ARTICLE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT