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Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)

Research in France on possible prejudice on the part of the police or criminal court is scarce, surprisingly scarce given the explosive nature of the question that the November 2005 riots recently illustrated. The present research is an analysis of discrimination founded on the defendants’ origins i...

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Auteurs principaux:	Jobard, Fabien, Névanen, Sophie
Format:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:	Français
Publié:	2009
Accès en ligne:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	cairn-RFS_505_0065RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2009-5-page-65?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.505.0065 Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005) Jobard, FabienNévanen, Sophie2009 fre Revue française de sociologie \| 50 \| 5 \| 2009-12-17 \| p. 65-94 \| 0035-2969 RFS_5057 Research in France on possible prejudice on the part of the police or criminal court is scarce, surprisingly scarce given the explosive nature of the question that the November 2005 riots recently illustrated. The present research is an analysis of discrimination founded on the defendants’ origins in criminal and civil affairs, taking as base all those defendants tried for offences against police officers by a Paris-area criminal court between 1965 and 2005. The defendants in the “North African” group and the “Black” group (defined on the basis of their birthplace and surname) are roughly twice as likely as the “European” group of defendants to be imprisoned; they are sentenced to longer prison terms, and run a greater risk of having the police officer involved sue for damages. Multivariate analysis, however, indicates that the court’s discriminatory decisions can be attributed to technical and procedural factors alone that launch court machinery into over-penalization of its “regular customers” among which the two groups mentioned above are overrepresented. This does not seem to be the case, however when it comes to the police officer’s individual decision as to whether or not to press charges for damages.Cairn free access
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description	Research in France on possible prejudice on the part of the police or criminal court is scarce, surprisingly scarce given the explosive nature of the question that the November 2005 riots recently illustrated. The present research is an analysis of discrimination founded on the defendants’ origins in criminal and civil affairs, taking as base all those defendants tried for offences against police officers by a Paris-area criminal court between 1965 and 2005. The defendants in the “North African” group and the “Black” group (defined on the basis of their birthplace and surname) are roughly twice as likely as the “European” group of defendants to be imprisoned; they are sentenced to longer prison terms, and run a greater risk of having the police officer involved sue for damages. Multivariate analysis, however, indicates that the court’s discriminatory decisions can be attributed to technical and procedural factors alone that launch court machinery into over-penalization of its “regular customers” among which the two groups mentioned above are overrepresented. This does not seem to be the case, however when it comes to the police officer’s individual decision as to whether or not to press charges for damages.
author	Jobard, Fabien Névanen, Sophie
spellingShingle	Jobard, Fabien Névanen, Sophie Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)
author_facet	Jobard, Fabien Névanen, Sophie
author_sort	Jobard, Fabien
title	Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)
title_short	Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)
title_full	Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)
title_fullStr	Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)
title_full_unstemmed	Colour-Tainted Sentencing ? Racial Discrimination in Court Sentences Concerning Offences Committed against Police Officers (1965-2005)
title_sort	colour-tainted sentencing ? racial discrimination in court sentences concerning offences committed against police officers (1965-2005)
publishDate	2009
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