Author's Keywords: gender, case-processing, pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing, statistical myth, chivalry tradition, focal concern theory, socialist feminism	Convention All Academic Convention makes running your annual conference simple and cost effective. It is your online solution for abstract management, peer review, and scheduling for your annual meeting or convention. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Zhong, Hua. "Effects of Gender on Court Official’s Decision-Making across Case-Processing Stages" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-10-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p19971_index.html>

Zhong, H. , 2005-08-12 "Effects of Gender on Court Official’s Decision-Making across Case-Processing Stages" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2008-10-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p19971_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The present study employs data from the State Court Processing program in large urban counties (1990-1998) to explore two research questions: (1) for felony defendants, whether gender differences exist across multiple case-processing stages, including pretrial release, adjudication, and sentencing; (2) if so, why such disparities occur. Specific hypotheses are derived from four alternative perspectives: statistical myth, chivalry tradition, focal concern theory and socialist feminism. To test these hypotheses, OLS, logistic and multinomial logistic analysis are applied. The results show that gender differences do exist when making decisions of detention, bail held, conviction, reduced charge, going to trial, jail sentence, and jail length. These findings also reveal support for the focal concern theory, but not for the other three approaches.

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