Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders
Subtitle: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (Criminal Justice (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781931202602
Subjects: Penology; Sociology; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Discrimination in capital puni; Social Science; Race relations; Hispanic American criminals; Discrimination & Racism; United States; Criminology; Civil rights; Discrimination in capital punishment; Discrimination in criminal jus
First sentence: Traditionally, capital punishment researchers have emphasized the unequal death sentencing of African American and Caucasian defendants (as well as deterrence, capital punishment states and crime rates v. non-capital punishment states, and capital punishment and crime rates overtime, especially during the pre-Furman/post-Furman period).