When Domestic Goes Capital: Juror Decision Making in Capital Murder Trials Involving Domestic Homicide
| dc.contributor.author | Richards, Tara N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Smith, M. Dwayne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fogel, Sondra J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bjerregaard, Beth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-21T17:00:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-21T17:00:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prior research suggests that homicide cases involving familial offenders and victims are subject to a "domestic discount" that reduces sentencing severity. However, the operation of a domestic discount in regard to death penalty sentencing has been rarely examined. The current research uses a near-population of jury decisions in capital murder trials conducted in North Carolina from 1991 to 2009 (n = 800), and a series of logistic regression analyses to determine whether there is (a) a direct effect between offender-victim relationship (e.g., domestic, friend/acquaintance, and stranger) and jury decision making, and/or (b) whether domestic offender-victim relationship (as well as other offender-victim relationships) moderates the effect of legal and extralegal case characteristics on jury assessment of the death penalty. Our findings revealed no empirical support for a "domestic discount" whereby juries are less likely to impose death sentences in cases involving domestic homicides. However, substantial differences in predictors of death sentencing were found across offender-victim dyads; most notably, domestic homicide cases demonstrated the most legalistic model of jury decisions to impose death sentences. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 14 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M2G44HR2X | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Richards, T. N., Smith, M. D., Fogel, S. J., & Bjerregaard, B. (2015). When Domestic Goes Capital: Juror Decision Making in Capital Murder Trials Involving Domestic Homicide. Law and Human Behavior, 39(4), 402-415. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/5429 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Law and Human Behavior | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Baltimore | |
| dc.subject | death penalty | en_US |
| dc.subject | jury decision making | en_US |
| dc.subject | offender victim relationship | en_US |
| dc.subject | domestic discount | en_US |
| dc.subject | death sentence | en_US |
| dc.subject | domestic homicide | en_US |
| dc.title | When Domestic Goes Capital: Juror Decision Making in Capital Murder Trials Involving Domestic Homicide | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |