RT Article
T1 Statistical Difficulties in Determining the Role of Race in Capital Cases: A Re-analysis of Data from the State of Maryland*
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 21
IS 4
SP 365
OP 390
A1 Berk, Richard
A2 Li, Azusa
A2 Hickman, Laura J.
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764280261
AB In this paper, we re-analyze data used to study the role of race in capital cases in the state of Maryland. We show that when alternative, and arguably more appropriate, statistical procedures are applied, the racial effects reported in early work turn out to be very fragile. The methodological point is more general: conventional causal modeling with observational data is not likely to produce robust results for a variety of criminal justice applications.
K1 Random forests
K1 classification and regression trees
K1 Propensity scores
K1 Logistic regression
K1 Death Penalty
K1 Race
DO 10.1007/s10940-005-7354-7