Vigilantism, current racial threat, and death sentences

American Sociological Review

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 656-677

  Jacobs, David ^a   Carmichael, Jason T ^a   Kent, Stephanie L ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 27644466410     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240507000406     Document Type: Article

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