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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
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1 online resource (20 entries) : 1 image ; digital files. |
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still image rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Racial bias and capital punishment / Richard C. Dieter -- Part 1. The crisis of race and capital punishment. McCleskey v. Kemp and the reaffirmation of separate but equal / David P. Keys and R.J. Maratea ; Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp : a failure of sociological imagination? / Tony G. Poveda ; McCleskey and the lingering problem of "race" / Ross Kleinstuber -- Part 2. Race, class, and capital sentencing. Overcoming moral peril : how empirical research can affect death penalty debates / R.J. Maratea ; Capital sentencing and structural racism : the source of bias / Gennaro F. Vito and George E. Higgins ; Capital case processing in Georgia after McCleskey : more of the same / Jacqueline Ghislaine Lee, Ray Paternoster, and Michael Rocque ; Addressing contradictions with the social psychology of capital juries and racial bias / Jamie L. Flexon ; Nothing succeeds like failure : race, decisionmaking, and proportionality in Oklahoma homicide trials, 1973-2010 / David P. Keys and John F. Galliher -- Part 3. Death in the past, present, and future. Why do we need the death penalty? / Robert M. Bohm ; The death penalty's dirty little secret / Franklin E. Zimring ; Race of victim and American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Race and the Death Penalty examines the persistence of racial discrimination in the practice of capital punishment, the dynamics that drive it, and the human consequences of both. |
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Also available in print version. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
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Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States.
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African American criminals -- Civil rights -- Case studies.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Keys, David P., editor.
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Maratea, R. J., 1973- editor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1626373566 9781626373563 |
| ISBN |
9781787858114 electronic version |
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1626373566 print |
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9781626373563 print |
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