A Critical Examination of the “White Victim Effect” and Death Penalty Decision-Making from a Propensity Score Matching Approach: The North Carolina Experience

Death penalty research has rather consistently demonstrated a statistically significant relationship between defendant race and victim race in general, and for the Black defendant/White victim race dyad specifically. The bulk of this evidence has been derived from correlational studies and from cases over relatively condensed time frames.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Jennings, Wesley G. ; Richards, Tara N. ; Dwayne Smith, M. ; Bjerregaard, Beth ; Fogel, Sondra J.
Published in:	Journal of Criminal Justice. - Elsevier, ISSN 0047-2352. - Vol. 42.2014, 5, p. 384-398
Publisher:	Elsevier

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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