Hispanics and the death penalty: Discriminatory charging practices in San Joaquin County, California

Lee, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2006.11.012

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“…Attitude toward capital punishment has been shown to be associated with several variables including race, gender, age, socio-cultural background, religiosity, job and training, general mental health, and emotion. These factors are among the main components of self (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8). For example, both race and gender have been related with death penalty.…”

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How Gender, Majors, Religion and Mental Health Affect the Justified Death Attitude?

Zandian

Habibi

Seydi

et al. 2017

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background: Death penalty and euthanasia are disputed practices in the world. However, they are considered "justified" by their proponents. We newly developed a scale for assessment of the attitude toward justified death, which determines "hot cognition" using a number of scenarios. Objectives: This study aimed at assessing the effects of the major demographic items including gender, major, religion, and mental health on the justified death attitude. Methods: A total of 481 participants including 419 university students and 62 seminarians participated in the study in Tehran, Iran. The Persian versions of the justified death attitude scale and the general health questionnaire-12 were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using the multivariate analysis of variance. Results: Capital punishment was suggested more frequently for rape and drug trafficking and less frequently for murder, and infrequently for adultery. Men and religious subjects showed a more positive attitude toward execution. Furthermore, most of the subjects did not agree with euthanasia; surprisingly, active euthanasia was more acceptable than passive euthanasia. Finally, death penalty and euthanasia did not show an association with mental health. Conclusions: Individual characteristics like gender, major, and religiosity could significantly affect the attitude of people toward justified death. Further studies including neuropsychological methods are suggested.

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How Gender, Majors, Religion and Mental Health Affect the Justified Death Attitude?

Zandian

Habibi

Seydi

et al. 2017

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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“…While societal rules may make overt racial bias more distasteful, the findings here indicate that when negative social features that are not ethnic related are combined with ethnicity, biased decision making may result. This may account, in part, for the racial disparities found for death penalty proceedings (Lee, 2007) for Latinos. Future research should determine if death penalty atti tudes and specific components of negative attitudes toward Latinos predict death penalty decisions.…”

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The influence of mitigation evidence, ethnicity, and SES on death penalty decisions by European American and Latino venire persons.

Espinoza

Willis-Esqueda

2015

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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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.

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“…Not only are blacks more likely to be charged with capital cases, but cases in which the victim is African American or Hispanic are less likely to be charged as capital homicides than if the victim is White or Asian [29]. In fact, "The odds of being charged with capital homicide for defendants in African American victim cases were one-fifth the likelihood for defendants in White or Asian victim cases…The odds for those defendants [where the victim was Hispanic] were one-twentieth the odds that defendants in White or Asian American victim cases faced" [29].…”

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Black vs. White, Life vs. Death; Using Automatic vs. Controlled Processing as a Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Mannes¹

2017

J Forensic Res

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An extensive amount of social science research has been conducted on issues related to the criminal justice system. From the moment a crime is witnessed until a verdict and sentence have been rendered there exists opportunity for the human cognitive system to distort and misinterpret data about a crime, about the suspect, and about the process itself. The research presented here describes, in easy to understand terms, some of the empirical research that points out disadvantages minorities face within the system, differences in the way in which trial information is received and evaluated, and provides a framework that may potentially lend itself to methods for mitigating these disadvantages and individual differences.

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Hispanics and the death penalty: Discriminatory charging practices in San Joaquin County, California

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

How Gender, Majors, Religion and Mental Health Affect the Justified Death Attitude?

How Gender, Majors, Religion and Mental Health Affect the Justified Death Attitude?

The influence of mitigation evidence, ethnicity, and SES on death penalty decisions by European American and Latino venire persons.

Black vs. White, Life vs. Death; Using Automatic vs. Controlled Processing as a Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

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