The interaction between victim race and gender on sentencing outcomes in capital murder trials: A further exploration

Homicide Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 98-117

  Stauffer, Amy R ^a   Smith, M Dwayne ^b   Cochran, John K ^b   Fogel, Sondra J ^b   Bjerregaard, Beth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital punishment; Gender; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646170641     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767905285510     Document Type: Article

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