CJRC Director Jeffery Ulmer and Jason Silver (Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University) recently published an article in Journal of Crime and Justice titled, “Moral Intuitions, Punishment Ideology, and Judicial Sentencing.” This study is based on a survey of Pennsylvania judges on their moral views, criminal justice attitudes, and sentencing preferences, supported by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.
Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2023.2248085
Jeffery Ulmer and Jordan Zvonkovich also published an article titled “Segregation and Group Threat: Specifying Hispanic-White Punishment Disparity” in Social Problems. Jordan is a Criminology Ph.D. candidate and is a full-time member of the research staff of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.
Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spad032