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Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
2009,2008
Overview
In Race, Class, and the Death Penalty, Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb examine historical trends in the use of capital punishment in the United States. Employing empirical data, the authors explore how frequently the death penalty has been used and how its frequency of use has changed, where the death penalty was used most often, the offenses charged, and the characteristics of the executed. Not surprisingly, their findings indicate that minority groups—particularly African Americans and those of lower social and economic status in general—have been executed in disproportionate numbers. The authors conclude that while the use of the death penalty has progressively declined, and the range of capital offenses has narrowed, disparities in the use of capital punishment between social groups and regions that appeared in the colonial period have persisted into the twenty-first century.
Publisher
State University of New York Press,SUNY Press
Subject
African American Studies : Afro-American Studies
/ Capital punishment -- United States -- History
/ Class
/ Criminology & Criminal Justice
/ Discrimination in capital punishment
/ Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States -- History
/ Discrimination in criminal justice administration
/ Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / General
/ Race
/ Racism
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
/ U.S.A
ISBN
0791474380, 9780791474389, 9780791474372, 0791474372, 9780791478349, 0791478343
