TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bohm,Robert M.
AU  - Dieter,Richard C.
AU  - Flexon,Jamie L.
AU  - Galliher,John F.
AU  - Higgins,George E.
AU  - Keys,David P.
AU  - Kleinstuber,Ross
AU  - Lee,Jacqueline Ghislaine
AU  - Maratea,R.J.
AU  - Maratea,R.J.
AU  - Paternoster,Ray
AU  - Poveda,Tony G.
AU  - Rocque,Michael
AU  - Vito,Gennaro F.
AU  - Zimring,Franklin E.
TI  - Race and the Death Penalty: The Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp 
SN  - 9781626375130
AV  - KF9227.C2 R33 2016eb
U1  - 345.73/0773 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Discrimination in capital punishment
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Racial Bias and Capital Punishment --; Part 1 The Crisis of Race and Capital Punishment --; 2 McCleskey v. Kemp and the Reaffirmation of Separate but Equal --; 3 Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp: A Failure of Sociological Imagination? --; 4 McCleskey and the Lingering Problem of “Race” --; Part 2 Race, Class, and Capital Sentencing --; 5 Overcoming Moral Peril: How Empirical Research Can Affect Death Penalty Debates --; 6 Capital Sentencing and Structural Racism: The Source of Bias --; 7 Capital Case Processing in Georgia After McCleskey: More of the Same --; 8 Addressing Contradictions with the Social Psychology of Capital Juries and Racial Bias --; 9 Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Race, Decisionmaking, and Proportionality in Oklahoma Homicide Trials, 1973–2010 --; Part 3 Death in the Past, Present, and Future --; 10 Why Do We Need the Death Penalty? --; 11 The Death Penalty’s Dirty Little Secret --; 12 Race of Victim and American Capital Punishment --; Bibliography --; The Contributors --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - In what has been called the Dred Scott decision of our times, the US Supreme Court found in McCleskey v. Kemp that evidence of overwhelming racial disparities in the capital punishment process could not be admitted in individual capital cases—in effect institutionalizing a racially unequal system of criminal justice. Exploring the enduring legacy of this radical decision nearly three decades later, the authors of Race and the Death Penalty examine the persistence of racial discrimination in the practice of capital punishment, the dynamics that drive it, and the human consequences of both
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626375130
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626375130
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626375130/original
ER  -