Race and the death penalty : the legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp
2023
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Abstract: Race and the Death Penalty examines the persistence of racial discrimination in the practice of capital punishment, the dynamics that drive it, and the human consequences of both.
Main title:
Race and the death penalty : the legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp / edited by David P. Keys, R.J. Maratea.
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[Enhanced Credo edition]
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Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2016.Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2023.
Collation:
1 online resource (20 entries) : 1 image ; digital files.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.Also available in print version.Description based on title page of print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Contents:
Racial bias and capital punishment / Richard C. DieterPart 1. The crisis of race and capital punishment. McCleskey v. Kemp and the reaffirmation of separate but equal / David P. Keys and R.J. Maratea ; Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp : a failure of sociological imagination? / Tony G. Poveda ; McCleskey and the lingering problem of "race" / Ross KleinstuberPart 2. Race, class, and capital sentencing. Overcoming moral peril : how empirical research can affect death penalty debates / R.J. Maratea ; Capital sentencing and structural racism : the source of bias / Gennaro F. Vito and George E. Higgins ; Capital case processing in Georgia after McCleskey : more of the same / Jacqueline Ghislaine Lee, Ray Paternoster, and Michael Rocque ; Addressing contradictions with the social psychology of capital juries and racial bias / Jamie L. Flexon ; Nothing succeeds like failure : race, decisionmaking, and proportionality in Oklahoma homicide trials, 1973-2010 / David P. Keys and John F. GalliherPart 3. Death in the past, present, and future. Why do we need the death penalty? / Robert M. Bohm ; The death penalty's dirty little secret / Franklin E. Zimring ; Race of victim and American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.
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ISBN:
9781787858114 (electronic version)1626373566 (print)9781626373563 (print)
Dewey class:
345.730773
LC class:
KF9227.C2
Language:
English
Subject:
Capital punishment -- United StatesDiscrimination in criminal justice administration -- United StatesDiscrimination in capital punishment -- United StatesAfrican American criminals -- Civil rights -- Case studiesCriminal justice, Administration of -- Political aspects -- United StatesCase studiesElectronic books
BRN:
677387
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