The impact of victim-offender familial relationships on capital sentencing outcomes
This study is an investigation of whether familial relationships among offenders and their victims affect capital sentencing. Using a sample of capital cases from North Carolina restricted to familial homicides, logistic regression models are used while controlling for legal and extra-legal factors...
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Scholar Commons
2005
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2871 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3870&context=etd |