THE IMPACT OF JURY RACE IN CRIMINAL TRIALS

This article examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We use a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random variation in the composition of th...

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Published in:The Quarterly journal of economics 2012-05, Vol.127 (2), p.1017-1055
Main Authors: Anwar, Shamena, Bayer, Patrick, Hjalmarsson, Randi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
2000-2010
Black people
Conviction rates
Convictions
Criminal justice
Criminal offenses
Criminal trials
Data analysis
Defendants
Ethnische Diskriminierung
Experimental methods
Felony
Florida
Juries
Jurors
Justice
Kriminalität
Litigation
Prosecuting attorneys
Race
Racial discrimination
Rechtsprechung
Research design
Research methodology
Studies
Trials
U.S.A
Venire
Voir dire
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