RT Article
T1 Normal homicides, normal defendants: finding leniency in Oklahoma's murder conviction machinery
JF Western criminology review
VO 12
IS 1
SP 35
OP 42
A1 Mays, G. Larry 1949-
A1 Keys, David
A2 Keys, David
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1414913745
AB Data derived from Oklahoma Criminal Offender Records, Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals, and newspapers of record (1973-2008) were analyzed along with interviews of key criminal court officers, assessing the normal crimes concept (Sudnow 1965) and common-sense considerations in homicide case dispositions (Garfinkel 1956). Statistical analyses of charging patterns in murder cases in Oklahoma (n = 2,629) demonstrate that defendants’ legal representation, both public and private, dispose of large numbers of cases as normal homicides and that specific predictor variables exist that influence the decision to treat a given homicide as normal.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 41-42
K1 Mord
K1 Angeklagte
K1 Social Disorganization
K1 Collective Efficacy
K1 informal control
K1 formal control
K1 Crime
K1 Victimization