Prosecuting working girls: examining the influence of race and gender on prosecutorial decision-making among vice crimes
Prosecuting working girls: examining the influence of race and gender on prosecutorial decision-making among vice crimes
Tri Keah S. Henry Nicole Niebuhr Lisa R. Muftić a Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USAb University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USAc Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts, USATri Keah Henry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University – Bloomington. Her research interests include examining discretionary decision-making among key criminal justice actors, highlighting differences in case-processing and sentencing outcomes across race and gender. Her recent work has appeared in Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminal Justice Policy Review, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Violence Against Women, and Feminist Criminology.Nicole Niebuhr Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her research interests include offender rehabilitation, decision-making, criminological theory, and program evaluation. Her work has appeared in Crime & Delinquency, Corrections Policy, Practice & Research and Journal of Criminal Justice.Lisa R. Muftić is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Western New England University. She was appointed the U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Bosnia and Herzegovina (2012-2013) In 2015, she was named the Faculty Researcher of the Year by the American Society of Criminology Division of Victimology. Her published scholarship has appeared in Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Violence Against Women, and Journal of Interpersonal Violence.