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An Empirical Evaluation Of The Connecticut Death Penalty System Since 1973: Are There Unlawful Racial, Gender, And Geographic Disparities?, John J. Donohue
An Empirical Evaluation Of The Connecticut Death Penalty System Since 1973: Are There Unlawful Racial, Gender, And Geographic Disparities?, John J. Donohue
John Donohue
This article analyzes the 205 death-eligible murders leading to homicide convictions in Connecticut from 1973–2007 to determine if discriminatory and arbitrary factors influenced capital outcomes. A regression analysis controlling for an array of legitimate factors relevant to the crime, defendant, and victim provides overwhelming evidence that minority defendants who kill white victims are capitally charged at substantially higher rates than minority defendants who kill minorities, that geography influences both capital charging and sentencing decisions (with the location of a crime in Waterbury being the single most potent influence on which death-eligible cases will lead to a sentence of death), and …
The Death Penalty, John J. Donohue
The Death Penalty, John J. Donohue
John Donohue
A system of punishment involving the execution of individuals convicted of a capital crime.
The issue of the death penalty has been an area of enormous academic and political ferment in the United States over the last forty years, with the country flirting with abolition in the 1970s, followed by a period of renewed use of the death penalty, and then a period of retrenchment, reflected in a declining number of death sentences and executions and a recent trend leading six states to abolish the death penalty in the last six years. Internationally, there is a steady movement away from …
Murder In Decline In The 1990s: Why The U.S. And N.Y.C. Were Not That Special," Book Review Of Frank Zimring's, John Donohue
Murder In Decline In The 1990s: Why The U.S. And N.Y.C. Were Not That Special," Book Review Of Frank Zimring's, John Donohue
John Donohue
No abstract provided.
Economic Models Of Crime And Punishment, John J. Donohue
Economic Models Of Crime And Punishment, John J. Donohue
John Donohue
No abstract provided.