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Download full textRand, Michael R. – 1991
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects data on crimes that are not reported to the police as well as those that are reported. Because some crimes are difficult or impossible to examine in a general population survey, the NCVS measures only the personal victimizations of rape, robbery, assault, and theft, and the household crimes…
Descriptors: Crime, National Surveys, Rape, Statistical Surveys
Peer reviewedKleck, Gary – American Sociological Review, 1981
Reevaluation of published research on racial bias in criminal sentencing, and data on execution rates (1930-67) and death sentencing rates (1967-78), contradict a hypothesis of overt discrimination against Black defendants. One possible explanation of relatively lenient sentencing of Black defendants is the devalued status of Black crime victims.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Capital Punishment, Courts, Criminals
