Defendants' characteristics of attractiveness, race, and sex and sentencing decisions

Psychological Reports

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 679-683

  DeSantis, Andrea ^b   Kayson, Wesley A ^a  

^a IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001392293     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1997.81.2.679     Document Type: Article

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