Final Report to the Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts: Recommendations for Change

A Commission-funded report submitted to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts discussing the difficulties in obtaining data on sentencing patterns from records kept by the Massachusetts court system; the strengths and limitations of the information; and proposing a set of recommendations for new and developing information collection systems on the issue of racial and ethnic disparity in sentencing.