Race and ethnic differences in punishment and death sentence outcomes: Empirical analysis of data on California, Florida and Texas, 1975-1995

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-35

  Urbina, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death penalty; Ethnicity; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344449937     PISSN: 15377938     EISSN: 15377946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J222v01n01_02     Document Type: Article

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