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14 - Race, Police, and the Production of Capital Homicides

from Part IV - Police Force and Police Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2019

Tamara Rice Lave
Affiliation:
University of Miami School of Law
Eric J. Miller
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Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles
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Racial disparities have been endemic to the administration of capital punishment in the US since the nation’s founding (Amsterdam, 2007; Warden and Lennard, 2018).

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