Explaining the "Female Victim Effect" in Capital Sentencing Decisions: A Case for Sex-Specific Models of Capital Sentencing Research
The potential influence of extralegal characteristics on the outcome of post-Furman capital cases (1972) has been a focus of criminal justice researchers and legal scholars. Much of this literature has assessed the impact of victim and defendant race on the likelihood of receiving the death penalty...
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Scholar Commons
2011
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3741 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4936&context=etd |