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Logue, Melissa A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
With the increasing discourse about a crime-immigration nexus and Latinos, it is critical to ascertain how the criminal justice system responds to noncitizen Latino defendants. Using federal sentencing data to investigate the role of national origin and immigration status on noncitizen Latinos' sentencing outcomes, several findings emerge. First,…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, Law Enforcement, Justice, Immigration
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Boccaccini, Marcus T.; Murrie, Daniel C.; Duncan, Scott A. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
In this study, the authors examined how overreporting of psychopathology indices on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; L. C. Morey, 1991) performed as screening measures for malingering in a sample of 166 defendants undergoing pretrial court-ordered evaluations in the federal criminal justice system. Using results from the Structured…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Personality Assessment, Justice, Cutting Scores