Social Threats and Their Influence on Court Outcomes Topic of Award-Winning Paper by Kansas State University Doctoral Student in Sociology.

Byline: Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Kansas State University graduate student's paper that examines how social threat may influence individual criminal court outcomes has been honored as the best in a competition sponsored by the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

"Enemies at the Gate: Toward a Theory of Court-Level Racial Threat" by Travis Linnemann, doctoral student in sociology, Manhattan, was selected the top paper in the association's 2007 Student Paper Competition.

Linnemann, who also earned a master's in sociology from K-State in 2006, was recognized at the annual conference of the Midwestern …