Lethal 'borders': Elucidating jurors' racialized discipline to punish in Latino defendant death cases

Punishment and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-84

  Fleury Steiner, Benjamin ^a   Argothy, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death penalty; Jury; Latino Americans; Race and punishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744447434     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474504039092     Document Type: Article

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