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Hispanics homicide victims got sentences that was 31% shorter than whites (Curry, 2010). When it came to robbery Hispanics had longer sentences than whites. The race of the offender showed on difference with sentencing in his study. He also found that the relationship between the victim and offender did affect the length of sentencing by having longer sentencing. The homicide victimization of a female that is white led to a sentence that was longer than any race of males (Curry, 2010). They had a 50% increase in sentence length, while Hispanics has 34% increase in sentence length (Curry, 2010, p. 452). 13.) Having the right to vote is very important in a democracy. Depending on the state felon disenfranchisement laws takes away offender†¦show more content†¦14.) Since the 1980s the legislative changes to transfer laws was one of the ways to control juvenile crime. Legislative and prosecutorial used waivers to tried a youth as an adult. For some states did not like this waivers, so they would send the case back to juvenile court (Gabbidon Greene, 2013). During 1985 to 2007 it seem that more African American youth was being transfer to adult court no matter what type of offense that was committed. In the 1990s for the offense against the person African American youth was transfer twice as much as whites and three times as more with drug offenses (Gabbidon Greene, 2013). But by 2007 it was about the same for blacks and white juveniles to be transfer to adult court. In the 1980s about 20% of juveniles that was arrested was female, but between 1983 and 1997 the arrest for ju venile females had increased verses males (Gabbidon Greeen, 2013). In 2009 juveniles under the ages 15 accounted for 3.8% of the arrested made and for those under 18yrs, it was about 14.1 arrests. 15.) The purpose of Howell and Hutto’s (2012) study was to see if it was true that African American and Hispanics juveniles in adult court receive more severe punishments than white juveniles. The study addresses this issue by seeing if whether race has an impact on transfer juvenile being sentence to restitution, probation, or jail (Howell Hutto, 2012). 16.) The three hypothesis are as follow: 1.) African Americans, Hispanics and other