Notable sentencing research in recent special issue of “Law and Human Behavior”

I just tripped across the February 2023 issue of the journal “Law and Human Behavior,” which is labeled as “Special Issue: Racial Justice in the Criminal Justice and Legal Systems.”  This issue has lots of notable research, and sentencing fans might be especially interested in these pieces:

“The trial tax and the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, and age in criminal court sentencing” by Peter S. Lehmann

“The eye of the beholder: Increased likelihood of prison sentences for people perceived to have Hispanic ethnicity” by Erik Girvan and Heather Marek

“Does ‘Jamal’ Receive a Harsher Sentence Than ‘James’? First-Name Bias in the Criminal Sentencing of Black Men” by Dushiyanthini (Toni) Kenthirarajah, Nicholas P. Camp, Gregory M. Walton, Aaron C. Kay and Geoffrey L. Cohen