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Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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The Dynamic Theory of Homicide: Adverse Social Conditions and Formal Social Control as Factors Explaining the Variations of the Homicide Rate in 145 Countries
Marc Ouimet, Aurélien Langlade, Claire Chabot
Cross-national comparisons of crime across the world consistently show that homicide rates are higher in more impoverished countries. However, the role of formal social controls as mediators between social conditions and homicide has never been investigated across a large number of countries. To provide data on the efficiency of criminal justice systems across the world, we found 1,223 experts and had them fill out a questionnaire, providing data for 145 countries.
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The Role of Defendant Race and Racially Charged Media in Canadian Mock Juror Decision-Making
Laura McManus, Evelyn Maeder, Susan Yamamoto
This study examined the influence of defendant race and race salience (manipulated via racially charged media) on Canadian mock jurors' judgments. Two-hundred-and-ten jury-eligible Canadian online participants read a racially charged (general or specific to the defendant's race) or neutral article followed by a trial transcript that involved dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and impaired driving charges against a White, Black, or Indigenous defendant. Diverging from previous findings, this study did not find effects of defendant race or race salience on verdict judgments or causal attributions. However, when race is not a central feature of the case, making race salient outside the trial may increase levels of racial bias for some mock jurors.
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