Assessing the issue of arbitrariness in capital sentencing in North Carolina: Are the effects of legally relevant variables racially invariant?
This study analyzed case and sentencing data from 632 capital cases involving Black and White defendants and victims, processed in North Carolina from May 1990 through December 2002. Logistic regression analysis of all cases and race-specific data allowed assessment of the variable effects of jury a...
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Scholar Commons
2005
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2864 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3863&context=etd |