| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8363 |
| DP8363 A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing | |
| Alberto Alesina; Eliana La Ferrara | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-04-01 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper proposes a test of racial bias in capital sentencing based upon patterns of judicial errors in lower courts. We model the behavior of the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of the probability of sentencing an innocent and that of letting a guilty defendant free. We define racial bias as a situation where the relative weight on the two types of errors is a function of defendant and/or victim race. The key prediction of the model is that if the court is unbiased, ex post the error rate should be independent of the combination of defendant and victim race. We test this prediction using an original dataset that contains the race of the defendant and of the victim(s) for all capital appeals that became final between 1973 and 1995. We find robust evidence of bias against minority defendants who killed white victims: in Direct Appeal and Habeas Corpus the probability of error in these cases is 3 and 9 percentage points higher, respectively, than for minority defendants who killed minority victims. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Death penalty Discrimination Test for racial bias |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8363 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537190 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alberto Alesina,Eliana La Ferrara. DP8363 A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing. 2011. |
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