Biography

Prof. Cassia Spohn

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Arizona State University, USA

Foundation Professor


Email: cassia.spohn@asu.edu


Qualifications


1978 Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Political Science

1975 M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Political Science

1973 B.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Journalism and Political Science


Publications (selected)

  1. Cano, Mario V. and Cassia Spohn. (In press). “Circumventing the Penalty for Offenders Facing Mandatory Minimums: Revisiting the Dynamics of 'Sympathetic' and 'Salvageable' Offenders.” Criminal Justice and Behavior.
  2. Spohn, Cassia and Katharine Tellis. (In press). “Justice Denied? An Analysis of the Exceptional Clearance of Rape Cases in Los Angeles.” Albany Law Review.
  3. Spohn, Cassia. 2011. “Unwarranted Disparity in the Wake of the Booker/Fanfan Decision: Implications for Research and Policy.” Criminology & Public Policy, 10.
  4. Spohn, Cassia and Pauline K. Brennan. 2011. “The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Substantial Assistance Departures in Federal Courts.” Race and Justice, 1: 49-78.
  5. Wolfe, Scott, David Pyrooz and Cassia Spohn. 2011. “Unraveling the Effect of Offender Citizenship Status on Federal Sentencing Outcomes.” Social Science Research, 40: 349-362.”
  6. Hartley, Richard D., Holly Ventura Miller, and Cassia Spohn. 2010. “Do You Get What You Pay For? Type of Counsel and Its Effect on Criminal Court Outcomes.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 38: 1053-1070.
  7. Wu, Jawjeong and Cassia Spohn. 2010. “Inter-District Disparity in Sentencing in Three U.S. District Courts.” Crime & Delinquency, 56: 290-322.
  8. Anderson, Amy and Cassia Spohn. 2010. “Lawlessness in the Federal Sentencing Process? A Test for Uniformity and Consistency in Sentence Outcomes,” Justice Quarterly, 27: 363-393.
  9. Spohn, Cassia and Robert Fornango. 2009. “U.S. Attorneys and Substantial Assistance Departures: Testing for Inter-Prosecutor Disparity.” Criminology 47: 813-846.
  10. Wang, Xia., Dan Mears, Cassia Spohn, and Lisa Dario. 2009. "Assessing the Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Sentence Outcomes in Jurisdictions with Different Types of Sentencing Systems." Crime & Delinquency, Published in Online First of December 3, 2009.
  11. Spohn, Cassia and Lisa Sample. 2009. “The Dangerous Drug Offender in Federal Court: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity and Culpability.” Crime & Delinquency.
  12. Brennan, Pauline and Cassia Spohn. 2009. “The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Sentence Length Decisions in Federal Courts.” Race and Social Problems, 1: 200-217.
  13. Spohn, Cassia. 2009. “Race, Sex and Pretrial Detention in Federal Court: Indirect Effects and Cumulative Disadvantage.” University of Kansas Law Review, 57: 879-902.
  14. Brennan, Pauline and Cassia Spohn. 2008. “Empirical Research on the Impact of Sentencing Reforms: Recent Studies of State and Federal Sentencing Innovations.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 24: 340-344.
  15. Tellis, Katharine M. and Cassia Spohn. 2008. “The Sexual Stratification Hypothesis Revisited: Testing Assumptions About Simple and Aggravated Rape.” Journal of Criminal Justice 36: 252-261.
  16. Holleran, David, Dawn Beichner and Cassia Spohn. 2008. “Modeling Charging Agreement Between the Police and the Prosecutor in Rape Cases.” Crime & Delinquency.
  17. Hartley, Richard, Sean Maddan, and Cassia Spohn. 2007. “Prosecutorial Discretion: An Examination of Substantial Assistance Departures in Federal Crack Cocaine and Powder Cocaine Cases.” Justice Quarterly, 24: 382-407.
  18. Harrington, Michael and Cassia Spohn. 2007. “Do Race, Age, and Sex Matter in Sentencing Decisions? Use of the Total Incarceration Variable in a Non-Guideline Jurisdiction.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 44: 36-63.
  19. Spohn, Cassia. 2006. “Sentencing Decisions in Three U.S. District Courts: Testing the Assumption of Uniformity in the Federal Sentencing Process.” Justice Research & Policy, 7: 2-27.
  20. Stacey, Ann and Cassia Spohn. 2006. “The Effects of Marital Status and Dependent Children on Sentencing of Female and Male Offenders Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.” Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 11: 43-76.
  21. Holleran, David and Cassia Spohn. 2004. “On the Use of the Total Incarceration Variable in Sentencing Research.” Criminology, 42: 211-240.
  22. Spohn, Cassia and David Holleran. 2002. “The Effect of Imprisonment on Recidivism Rates of Felony Offenders: A Focus on Drug Offenders.” Criminology, 40: 329-358.
  23. Kautt, Paula and Cassia Spohn. 2002. “Crack-ing Down on Black Drug Offenders? Testing for Interactions Between Offender Race, Drug Type, and Sentencing Strategy in Federal Drug Sentences.” Justice Quarterly, 19: 1-35.

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