Playing the race card: Making race salient in defence opening and closing statements

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-303

  Bucolo, Donald O ^a   Cohn, Ellen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COLLEGE STUDENT; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; LAWYER; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77956595496     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532508X400824     Document Type: Article

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