The PENALTY Data Set: Outcomes for Murder Defendants
The PENALTY data set contains information about the outcomes of penalty trials for 147 defendants convicted of first-degree murder in New Jersey. This data is used extensively in Chapters 2 and 3. The variables are:
| DEATH | 1=death sentence; 0=life sentence |
| BLACKD | 1=defendant was black; 0=otherwise |
| WHITVIC | 1=victim was white; 0=otherwise |
| SERIOUS | Measure of the seriousness of the crime as evaluated by a panel of judges; based on rankings of cases, values range from 1 to 15 |
| CULP | Measure of the “culpability” of the defendant, based on predicted values from a logistic regression of DEATH on many other variables; values range from 1 to 5 |
| SERIOUS2 | Alternative measure of seriousness based on judges’ ratings |
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