Description
The purpose of this preliminary study is to determine if sentencing disparities exist between male and female teachers who have been convicted of sexual misconduct with a student in Maricopa County, Arizona over a ten-year period. The hypothesis is that male teachers convicted of sexual misconduct with a student will receive harsher punishment than their female counterparts. In addition, this research will analyze the sentencing decisions of Arizona judges and prosecutors through plea-bargaining when compared with the presumptive sentence set by the Arizona Legislature. Issues that will be addressed include: a brief review of gender disparities in sentencing, sex offender sentencing, Arizona's rules of criminal procedure, and a review of the Arizona Revised Statutes pertaining to sexual crimes as well as the Arizona Supreme Court sentencing guidelines. The data set consists of fifteen different Maricopa County teachers who committed a sexual offense against a student and were convicted of that offense from February 2000 through September 2009. According to the results of this study, male teachers do receive harsher penalties than their female counterparts within Maricopa County.
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Title
- Sentencing disparities between male and female teacher sexual offenders: do male offenders receive harsher penalties in Arizona?
Contributors
- Simmon, Christopher (Author)
- Holtfreter, Kristy (Thesis advisor)
- Wright, Kevin (Committee member)
- Spohn, Cassia (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2012
Subjects
- criminology
- Disparity
- Sentencing
- Sex Offenders
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Teachers--Legal status, laws, etc.--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Teachers
- Sex offenders--Legal status, laws, etc.--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Sex Offenders
- Female sex offenders--Legal status, laws, etc.--Arizona--Maricopa County.
- Female sex offenders
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2012
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 31-33)
- Field of study: Criminology and criminal justice
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Christopher Simmon