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Capital Trials and Representations of Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Robert M. Emerson
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Sociolegal research focused on equal protection and the death penalty faces an impasse as the result of recent Supreme Court decisions limiting the admissability of social science research in general and of aggregate data on bias in the application of capital punishment in particular. This impasse, however, provides an opportunity to renew investigation and analysis of the deeper meaning and implications of the death penalty in contemporary societies, not in abandonment of but as a complement to equal protection–oriented research.

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Symposium: Research on the Death Penalty: Comment
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 59 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association

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