| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 159 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Criminal justice: recent scholarship |
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Contents |
List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Racial Disparities and the Death Penalty; Introduction; Scope of Capital Cases and the Nature of the RacialDiscrimination Debate; An Interdisciplinary Approach; Formulating a Cognitive Based Theory of Racial Disparities; CHAPTER 2: Capital Punishment, the Court, and Racial Discrepancy Research; Introduction; Death Qualification: Requirements for a Capital Jury; The Fundamentals of Crime Control v. Due Process; Juror characteristics; Conclusion; CHAPTER 3: The Psychology of Stereotypes and Attitude Influence |
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StereotypesAttitudes; Sources Of Prejudice; CHAPTER 4: Assessing the Nature of Biases Among Potential Capital Jurors; Introduction; Data: The 1990 General Social Survey (GSS); Variables In The Model; Methodology; CHAPTER 5: Analyzing the Data: The Nature of Capital Jurors; Introduction; Regression Analysis; Conclusion; CHAPTER 6: Conclusions and Future Research; Review; Legal Considerations and Policy; General Policy Implications and Future Research; Conclusion; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Flexon presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the problem of racial disparities in capital case outcomes. In doing so, research from social and cognitive psychology concerning stereotypes and attitude influence were bridged with other empirical findings concerning racial disparities in capital sentencing. Specifically, the psychology of stereotypes and attitudes are used to help explain how racial discrimination can operate undetected among death qualified jurors while producing sentencing discrepancies. The introduction of a potential source of bias information concerning criminal justi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States
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Jury -- United States -- Decision making
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Discrimination in capital punishment
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Jury -- Decision making
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781593325114 |
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1593325118 |
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1593324855 |
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9781593324858 |
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