Race and the Death Penalty : The Legacy of Mccleskey V. Kemp.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1- Racial Bias and Captital Punishment -- Part 1- The Crisis of Race and Capital Punishment -- Chapter 2- McCleskey v. Kemp and the Reaffirmation of Separate but Equal -- Placing McCleskey in Historical Context -- Institutionalized Discrimination and Capital Punishment -- What Is to Be Done? -- Note -- Chapter 3- Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp: A Failure of Sociological Imagination? -- The Baldus Study -- McCleskey v. Kemp: "Private Trouble" or "Public Issue"? -- Assumptions of the Court's Legal Theory -- Chapter 4- McCleskey and the Lingering Problem of "Race" -- The Death Penalty: Still Discriminatory -- How McCleskey Ensures the Death Penalty Remains Arbitrary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2- Race, Class, and Capital Sentencing -- Chapter 5- Overcoming Moral Peril: How Empirical Research Can Affect Death Penalty Debates -- Morality and the Death Penalty Debate -- From the Moral to the Empirical: Using Datato Evaluate the Efficacy of Capital Punishment -- Judicial Interpretations of Statistical Data Pertaining to Capital Punishment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6- Capital Sentencing and Structural Racism: The Source of Bias -- The Role of the Prosecutor -- Role of the Capital Jury -- The Sources of Racial Bias -- Potential Remedies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7- Capital Case Processing in Georgia After McCleskey: More of the Same -- Research on Capital Sentencing -- Data Sources -- Results -- Discussion -- Appendix A: Case Characteristics -- Appendix B: Georgia Statutory Aggravating Factors -- Notes -- Chapter 8- Addressing Contradictions with the Social Psychology of Capital Juries and Racial Bias -- Juror Characteristics -- Stereotypes, Concentration, and the Capital Jury. Attitude/Stereotype Concentration and Group Polarization -- Intensification of Juror Attitudes and Perceptions -- Group Polarization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9- Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Race, Decisionmaking, and Proportionality in Oklahoma Homicide Trials, 1973-2010 -- Data Description and Empirical Analyses -- Results and Findings -- Assessing Predictor Variables Across All Models -- Conclusions and the (Non)Effect of Gregg v. Georgia -- Appendix A: List of Variables -- Appendix B: Ethnic Characteristics of Homicides, 1973-2010 (Capital and Second Degree) -- Part 3- Death in the Past, Present, and Future -- Chapter 10- Why Do We Need the Death Penalty? -- The Death Penalty in Historical and Geographical Context -- Arbitrary and Discriminatory Application -- Reasons for Retaining the Death Penalty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11- The Death Penalty's Dirty Little Secret -- Lawyers Matter -- The Anatomy of a Perverse Incentive -- Blaming the Victim? -- Chapter 12- Race of Victim and American Capital Punishment -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book.
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Discrimination in capital punishment - United States.