Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ548415
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Young, Black, and Sentenced To Die: Black Males and the Death Penalty.
Joseph, Janice
Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men, v7 n3 p65-73 Dec 1996
Explores the death penalty as imposed on young black males in the United States and examines the disparity in death penalty rates for homicides with black offenders and white victims. States continue to impose the death penalty rather than viewing youth violence as a failure of the social system. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Capital Punishment, Court Litigation, Crime, Homicide, Law Enforcement, Males, Racial Discrimination, Social Problems, Urban Youth, Violence, Young Adults
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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