Who survives on death row? An individual and contextual analysis

American Sociological Review

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 610-632

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

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC SECTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 34548087535     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240707200406     Document Type: Article

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