Playing the race card: making race salient in defence opening and closing statements
Purpose. Researchers have reported that making a Black defendant's race salient reduces White jurors' tendency to find Black defendants guilty (Sommers & Ellsworth, 2000). We examined whether making race salient by including racially salient statements in the defence attorney's op...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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Legal and criminological psychology
Year: 2010, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 293-303 |
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