Does Racism Fuel Conviction Proneness Among Non–African Americans? Assessing the Impact of Juror Bias at the Conviction Stage of Capital Trials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18995019 |
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| Authors | J L Flexon (0000-0001-8198-3704, Florida International University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 218-237 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-7938 • E-ISSN: 1537-7946 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15377938.2011.594358 |
| OpenAlex | W1995238621 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Previous theory has attempted to explain the disproportionate application of death sentences to African American defendants. It has been argued that racial prejudice directly and indirectly influences attitudes toward capital punishment, and this ultimately impacts conviction proneness, a tendency to favor conviction over acquittal among capital jurors. In the current research, the 1990 and 1996 General Social Survey are used in a series of multiple and logistic regression equations in an effort to extend this theoretical framework by applying it to non–African American respondents who favor capital punishment (N = 372). Although age, low education level, and conservatism influence racial prejudice among non–African American death penalty supporters, the findings suggest that racial bias is not a significant predictor of conviction proneness either directly or indirectly. Implications for the theory are discussed
Acquittal · Capital punishment · Conservatism · Conviction · Criminology · Political science · Racism · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
White female victims and death penalty disparity research
Symbolic Racism and Whites' Attitudes Towards Punitive and Preventive Crime Policies.
Racial Prejudice and Support for the Death Penalty by Whites
The Norc General Social Survey
Capriciousness or Fairness
On Reducing White Support for the Death Penalty
America's Experiment with Capital Punishment
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment
Why Do White Americans Support the Death Penalty
Old-Fashioned Racism and New Forms of Racial Prejudice
Did Growing Up in the 1960s Leave a Permanent Mark on Attitudes and Values
Opposition to Race-Targeting
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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