The Death Penalty and Racial Bias
Subtitle: Overturning Supreme Court Assumptions (Contributions in Legal Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: December 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780313288890
Subjects: Penology & punishment; Racism & racial discrimination; Capital Punishment; Criminal Justice Administration; Law; Sociology; Reference; USA; Criminal Law - General; Penology; Law / Criminal Law; Discrimination in capital puni; Discrimination in capital punishment; Discrimination in criminal jus; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; United States
First sentence: A considerable amount of evidence has been produced which suggests the criminal justice system is "racist" because it produces racially differential outcomes.