Drunk and Doubly Deviant? The Role of Gender and Intoxication in Sentencing Assault Offences

Lightowlers, CL ORCID: 0000-0002-0608-8141 (2019) Drunk and Doubly Deviant? The Role of Gender and Intoxication in Sentencing Assault Offences. The British Journal of Criminology: an international review of crime and society, 59 (3). pp. 693-717.

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Abstract

Little is known about how alcohol intoxication impacts sentence outcomes. This study assesses whether intoxication differentially aggravates sentence outcomes for male and female defendants of assault offences. It does so by modelling the probability of custody and sentence severity using the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, including interaction terms to account for the gendered application of intoxication as a sentencing factor. The main finding is that the aggravation afforded female defendants is twice that afforded males where intoxication in present and when controlling for relevant case characteristics. The study spotlights how cases of assault are processed through the criminal justice system and raises concerns with how gender equality is interpreted in sentencing practice with reference to alcohol intoxication.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	alcohol, intoxication, violence, sentencing, gender, criminal justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2018 08:36
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:14
DOI:	10.1093/bjc/azy041
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azy041
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3027935