Missouri Death Penalty Charges by Race of Defendant and Race of Victim, 19781996

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Missouri Death Penalty Charges by Race of
Defendant and Race of Victim, 1978-1996
Crosstabs to Multivariate Regression
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Research Question

• What causes a capital defendant to get the death
  sentence?

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Theory

• Death sentence is caused by race of defendant
• Death sentence is caused by race of victim

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Frequencies
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Model

Race of Defendant

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Race of Victim
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Correlation syntax

• corr death racedef racevic.

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Pearson r Correlation Table
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Death by Race of Defendant
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Regression syntax

• regr vars death racedef /depe death/enter.

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Regression of Death Penalty on Race of Defendant
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Death By Victim Race
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Death By Victim Race
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Death by Defendant Race by Victim Race
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Previous Crosstab SimplifedPercent Receiving
Death Penalty
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Pearson r between Defendant Race and Death by
Victim Race
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Histogram syntax

• sort cases by racevic.
• split file by racevic.
• GRAPH /BAR(GROUPED)PCT BY death BY racedef .

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Histograms
White Victim
Black Victim
Race Defendant
100
100
White
Black
80
80
60
60
40
40
20
20
0
0
Not death
death
Not death
death
death
death
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Multivariate Death on Victims Race and
Defendants Race