Reassessing race disparities in maryland capital cases

Criminology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 971-1008

  Paternoster, Raymond ^a   Brame, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Capital punishment; Propensity score weighting; Racial discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549084879     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2008.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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