Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing : Prejudice and Discrimination in trhe Jury Room.
Material type: TextSeries: Criminal Justice: Recent ScholarshipPublisher: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (175 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781593325114Subject(s): Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States | Jury -- United States -- Decision makingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing : Prejudice and Discrimination in trhe Jury RoomDDC classification: 345.73/0773 LOC classification: KF9227.C2 -- F549 2012ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- 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 Racial Discrimination 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 -- Stereotypes -- Attitudes -- 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.
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 justice and race also is offered. Results indicate that prejudicial ideas are likely operating to influence capital sentencing decisions.
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