Erasing race: overlooking racial and ethnic disadvantage as a mitigating factor in capital penalty trials
Due to the persistence of structural racism in America, non-whites are more likely to experience hardships related to their race or ethnicity that are relevant to capital mitigation than whites are. Yet, the color-blind ideology of post-Civil Rights America suggests that capital litigators would avo...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Journal of crime and justice
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 244-258 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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