Geographic arbitrariness?: County court variation in capital prosecution and sentencing in Pennsylvania

The death penalty remains one of the most controversial issues of criminal punishment not only because of racial/ethnic disparities, wrongful convictions, and inadequate defense representation but also because of the potential for geographic arbitrariness. The key empirical proposition embedded in t...

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Authors: Ulmer, Jeffery T. 1966- (Author) ; Kramer, John H. 1943- (Author) ; Zajac, Gary (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Criminology & public policy
Year: 2020, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 1073-1112
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