Demography of the Legal Profession and Racial Disparities in Sentencing.
The demography of the legal profession has changed rather dramatically in recent decades, yet the consequences of a more racially and ethnically diverse pool of lawyers for the administration of justice have not received significant attention. The present research examines how the racial composition...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 1 - 32 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 2010
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