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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Language: | English |
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2020
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Criminology & public policy
Year: 2020, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 1073-1112 |
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