Title Racial disparities in capital sentencing : prejudice and discrimination in the jury room / Jamie L. Flexon.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 159 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Criminal justice: recent scholarship
	Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Flexon presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the problem of racial disparities in capital case outcomes. In doing so, research from social and cognitive psychology concerning stereotypes and attitude influence were bridged with other empirical findings concerning racial disparities in capital sentencing. Specifically, the psychology of stereotypes and attitudes are used to help explain how racial discrimination can operate undetected among death qualified jurors while producing sentencing discrepancies. The introduction of a potential source of bias information concerning criminal justi.
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Subject	Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States.
	Discrimination in capital punishment.
	United States.
	Jury -- United States -- Decision making.
	Jury.
	Decision making.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Flexon, Jamie L., 1972- Racial disparities in capital sentencing. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012 (DLC) 2011036655
ISBN	9781593325114 (electronic book)
	1593325118 (electronic book)
	9781593324858 (hardback ; alkaline paper)