Author's Keywords: Keywords: Prosecutorial discretion, death penalty, capital punishment, judicial process, process theory, criminal justice, the South, capital sentencing, sentencing.	Convention Need a solution for abstract management? All Academic can help! Contact us today to find out how our system can help your annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Unah, Isaac. and Boger, John. "Race and the Process of Capital Punishment in the New South" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65960_index.html>

Unah, I. and Boger, J. C. , 2002-08-28 "Race and the Process of Capital Punishment in the New South" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65960_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Abstract The process of determining recipients of capital punishment in the United States involves sequential stages of decision making by the prosecutor and jury. Despite this practical reality, most researchers have concentrated on the most visible part of capital prosecution--the outcome at the sentencing phase. We argue in favor of modeling capital punishment as a process by decomposing the various stages of decision making. Using homicide data from 1993 through 1997, with a rich set of variables, we analyze the politics of race and its potential influence in the application of capital punishment in the new South. Despite structural reforms to minimize its effects in capital sentencing, race still plays a crucial role in capital punishment after controlling for institutional legal factors. However, the mechanism of racial disparity in capital prosecution is now different. Due to political empowerment of nonwhites, local prosecutors in the South who once made race-conscious decisions concerning whom to prosecute for the death penalty now appear race neutral. Our findings point to unelected jurors rather than to elected prosecutors as the actors most culpable for racial bias in capital sentencing.

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Race and the Death Penalty: The Effects of Minority Population Upon States' Capital Punishment Policies