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The influence of mitigation evidence, ethnicity, and SES on death penalty decisions by European American and Latino venire persons.
- Source :
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Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology [Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol] 2015 Apr; Vol. 21 (2), pp. 288-99. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Aug 25. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The purpose of the research was to determine whether European American and Latino mock jurors would demonstrate bias in death penalty decision making when mitigation evidence and defendant ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) were varied. A total of 561 actual venire persons acted as mock jurors and read a trial transcript that varied a defendant's case information (mitigating circumstances: strong/weak, defendant ethnicity: European American/Latino, and defendant SES: low/high). European American jurors recommended the death penalty significantly more often for the low SES Latino defendant when strength of mitigation evidence was weak. In addition, they also assigned this defendant higher culpability ratings and lower ratings on positive personality trait measures compared with all other conditions. Strong mitigation evidence contributed to lower guilt ratings by European American jurors for the high SES European American defendant. Latino jurors did not differ in their death penalty sentencing across defendant mitigation, ethnicity, or SES conditions. Discussion of in-group favoritism and out-group derogation, as well as suggestions for procedures to diminish juror bias in death penalty cases, is provided.<br /> ((c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).)
- Subjects :
- Adult
Bias
California
Crime ethnology
Crime legislation & jurisprudence
Decision Making
Female
Humans
Judicial Role
Jurisprudence
Lawyers legislation & jurisprudence
Male
Prejudice psychology
Social Class
Stereotyping
Capital Punishment legislation & jurisprudence
Hispanic or Latino legislation & jurisprudence
White People legislation & jurisprudence
White People psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1099-9809
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25150818
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037646