Effects of defendant ethnicity on juries' dispositions of felony cases

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 317-336

  Daudistel, Howard C ^a   Hosch, Harmon M ^a   Holmes, Malcolm D ^b   Graves, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b University of Texas at El Paso ^*

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EID: 0033477737     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb01389.x     Document Type: Article

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