The Impact of the Rape/Sexual Assault Statutory Aggravating Factor on Death Sentencing Decision Making in Capital Murder Trials in North Carolina (1977–2009): a Propensity Score Matching Approach

It was not too many decades ago that rape was a crime for which the death penalty was a permissible punishment in the United States, particularly in death penalty states in the South. Relatedly, historical and contemporary death penalty research almost always focuses on the role of the race of the d...

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Authors: Jennings, Wesley G. (Author) ; Smith, M. Dwayne (Author) ; Cochran, John K. (Author) ; Bjerregaard, Beth (Author) ; Fogel, Sondra J. (Author) ; Meade, Caitlyn N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Women & criminal justice
Year: 2017, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 139-150
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