SOCY 389 Study Guide - Final Guide: Femicide

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 389
• Professor: Fiona Kay

Document Summary

Variables of sentencing: (cid:224) offense attributes (offense type, seriousness of offense, number of offenses they are currently being charged for at once) (cid:224) offender attributes (extra legal variables such as gender, age, social class, employment status, and education) (cid:224) case processing attributes (whether bail was granted, judge vs jury making the final decision, what kind of lawyer one has) (cid:224) contextual attributes (the case load the court currently has, judges point of view (were they appointed or were they elected), political persuasion, community characteristics) Struggles within sentencing research (cid:224) measuring (cid:224) sampling (samples can be taken from different stages in the legal system or in different courts) (cid:224) use of court records vs correctional records (cid:224) legitimate factors measured and defined can vary from study to study (cid:224) contextual factors (compensation vs context, is the neighbourhood criminalgenic or are the people passing through the neighbourhood making it criminalgenic)