A Critical Examination of the “White Victim Effect” and Death Penalty Decision-Making from a Propensity Score Matching Approach: The North Carolina Experience

Wesley G. Jennings, Tara N. Richards, M. Dwayne Smith, Beth Bjerregaard and Sondra J. Fogel

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2014, vol. 42, issue 5, 384-398

Abstract: Death penalty research has rather consistently demonstrated a statistically significant relationship between defendant race and victim race in general, and for the Black defendant/White victim race dyad specifically. The bulk of this evidence has been derived from correlational studies and from cases over relatively condensed time frames.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2014.05.004

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