Status Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott W Phillips (0000-0002-0731-7612, corresponding author), Scott Phillips (0000-0001-8181-4783) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 807-838 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2009.00389.x |
| OpenAlex | W1592264781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 52 |
Numerous studies have examined the influence of victim race on capital punishment, with a smaller number focused on victim gender. But death penalty scholars have largely ignored victim social status. Drawing on Black's (1976) multidimensional theoretical concept, the current research examines the impact of victim social status on the district attorney's decision to seek the death penalty and the jury's decision to impose a death sentence. The data include the population of cases indicted for capital murder in Harris County (Houston), Texas, from 1992 to 1999 (n=504). The findings suggest that victim social status has a robust influence on the ultimate state sanction: Death was more likely to be sought and imposed on behalf of high-status victims who were integrated, sophisticated, conventional, and respectable. The research also has implications beyond capital punishment. Because victim social status has rarely been investigated in the broader sentencing literature, Black's concept provides a theoretical tool that could be used to address such an important omission
Capital (architecture · Capital punishment · Criminology · Geography · Jury · Political science · Population · Punishment (psychology · Race (biology · Sentence · Social capital · Social status · Sociology · State (computer science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Racialized Victim Gender Differences in Capital Decision Making in Pennsylvania
The influence of mitigation evidence, ethnicity, and SES on death penalty decisions by European American and Latino venire persons
If Looks Could Kill
Predictors of Death Sentencing for Minority, Equal, and Majority Female Juries in Capital Murder Trials
The Behavior of Law
Death in Dallas
Predictors of public support for the death penalty in the Americas
Disentangling Victim Gender and Capital Punishment
The Decision to Arrest in Sexual Assault Case Processing
Neighbourhood context and unsolved murders
Mobilizing Law in Latin America
American Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective
Have Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Declined
The Sociological Usages of “Pure Sociology”
Visualizing disparity trends on felony sentence-imposed months by gender and race with generative AI
Criminal history inquiries and minority threat in the legal profession
Representation through Participation
The Electronic Pillory
Spatial-Racial Disparities in California's Capital Punishment
Examining the Sources of Racial Bias in Potentially Capital Cases
A propensity score matching analysis of the relationship between victim sex and capital juror decision-making in North Carolina
The social structure of right and wrong
White female victims and death penalty disparity research
A Retributivist Argument against Capital Punishment
Still Paying the Price of Heterodoxy
Will Bayesian Inference Help? A Skeptical View
Reply to Bollen, Firebaugh, and Rubin
Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations
Apparent and Nonapparent Significance Tests
Bayes, Neyman, and Calibration
Statistical Significance Tests
Club Fed” and the Sentencing of White‐collar Offenders Before and After Watergate
Effects of Reducing Judicial Sentencing Discretion
Some Misleading Conceptions in Sentencing Research
Juvenile Court Dispositions
The Imprisonment Penalty Paid by Young, Unemployed Black and Hispanic Male Offenders
State Political Culture and Sentence Severity in Federal District Courts
Reassessing Race Disparities in Maryland Capital Cases
Socioeconomic Disparities Under Determinate Sentencing Systems
Unemployment and Punishment
Class Linkages of Legal Treatment of Homosexuals
Sentencing the White-Collar Offender
Sentencing the White-Collar Offender
The Differential Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders in Ten Federal District Courts
Societal Reaction to Deviants
Socioeconomic Status and Criminal Sentencing
The Ironies of Helping
The Influence of Income and Other Factors on Whether Criminal Defendants go to Prison
Extra-Legal Attributes and Criminal Sentencing
Aiding Peace, Abetting Violence
Sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
The Road Not Taken
Social Status and Sentences of Female Offenders
The Political Context of Sentencing
The Avoidance of Punishment
Constituting Class and Crime in Upper Canada
Economic Inequality and Discrimination in Sentencing
Twice Labeled
Direct and Organizational Discrimination in the Sentencing of Drug Offenders
Extra-Legal Factors in Chicago's Criminal Courts
Executions of Whites for Crimes Against Blacks
Legal Disposition of Inter-Group and Intra-Group Homicides
Dreams of Pure Sociology
Law That Does Not Fit Society
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |