Prosecutorial discretion in seeking death: An analysis of racial disparity in the pretrial stages of case processing in a Midwestern County

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 559-578

  Sorensen, Jon ^a   Wallace, Donald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology   (United States)

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