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Sentencing disparity or sentencing discrimination[1] is defined as "a form of unequal treatment in criminal punishment".[2]
- ^ Thomson, Randall J.; Zingraff, Matthew T. (1981). "Detecting Sentencing Disparity: Some Problems and Evidence". American Journal of Sociology. 86 (4): 869–880. doi:10.1086/227320. ISSN 0002-9602.
- ^ Alfred Blumstein, et al. Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Volume II (1983), p.9