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How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than wh...

For the past seven years, the most prominent federalcrime-prevention initiative has been the Community OrientedPolicing Services (COPS) program, which gives grants to state andlocal law enforcement agencies to help them reduce crime byincreasing community policing services.

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