Phillips, Scott W.  1961- <br/><br/>
Geometrical justice :  the death penalty in America / 
Scott Phillips and Mark Cooney, 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/> "Legal decisions continue to mystify: Why was this person convicted and that person acquitted of the same crime? Why did she sue for breach of contract and he did not? Legal rules are supposed to provide answers to these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a theory that explained legal decisions, which predicted how legal cases are likely to be brought and decided? Drawing on Donald Black's theory of the behavior of law, Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America aims to offer some answers, looking specifically at who receives the death penalty in the US. Drawing on large datasets, including the Baldus study which demonstrated racial bias in sentencing decisions, this book considers the ways in which social characteristics such as race, class, moral reputation, organizational status affect legal decision making, and the wide discrepancies in the use of capital punishment. Geometrical Justice will be of interest to those engaged in criminal justice, criminology and socio-legal studies, as well as students taking courses on sentencing, corrections and capital punishment"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781003176633 1003176631 9781000599329 1000599329 9781000599343 1000599345 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9781003176633  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--United States.<br/>Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Racism in criminal justice administration--United States.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8699.U5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.660973