A Closer Look At Race, Capital, And Sentencing: An Examination Of Race And Death Penalty Post-Furman and Gregg decisions from 1977-2011

dc.contributor.author	Khodayari, Michael R.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-07-25T19:09:15Z
dc.date.available	2012-07-25T19:09:15Z
dc.date.issued	2012-07-25
dc.date.submitted	January 2012	en_US
dc.identifier.other	DISS-11614	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10106/11080
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this thesis is to study racial disparity in capital sentencing since Gregg and Furman decisions from 1977-2011. The data used in this study came from execution in the United States, 1608-2002 (the ESPY file) and death penalty information center, 2003-2011. The findings of the data suggest that there is a relationship between the race of the victim and the race of the offender in the capital sentencing. Most of the empirical literature to date examined in the study also conclude that race is a determining factor in capital punishment cases.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Bing, Robert	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Criminology & Criminal Justice	en_US
dc.title	A Closer Look At Race, Capital, And Sentencing: An Examination Of Race And Death Penalty Post-Furman and Gregg decisions from 1977-2011	en_US
dc.type	M.A.	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeChair	Bing, Robert	en_US
dc.degree.department	Criminology & Criminal Justice	en_US
dc.degree.discipline	Criminology & Criminal Justice	en_US
dc.degree.grantor	University of Texas at Arlington	en_US
dc.degree.level	masters	en_US
dc.degree.name	M.A.	en_US