death {faraway}

Death penalty in Florida 1977

Description

Data on 326 defendents in homicide indictments in 20 Florida counties during 1976-77.

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables.

y

a numeric vector

penalty

Did the subject recieve the death penalty? no or yes

victim

Was the victim black or white?

defend

Was the defendent black or white?

Source

Radelet M. (1981) Racial characteristics and the imposition of the death penalty. Amer. Sociol. Rev. 46 918-927.

References

Agresti A. (1990) Categorical Data Analysis, Wiley.