Sherod Thaxton

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Professor of Law

385 Charles E. Young Dr. East

Room 1242

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476

United States

http://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/sherod-thaxton

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Luskin School of Public Affairs

Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy)

3250 Public Affairs Building

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656

United States

http://luskin.ucla.edu/person/sherod-thaxton

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Sociology

Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)

264 Haines Hall

375 Portola Plaza

Los Angeles, CA 90095

United States

http://soc.ucla.edu/people/sherod-thaxton

  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

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A General Strain Theory Approach to Families and Delinquency

Families, Crime and Criminal Justice, Greer L. Fox & Michael L. Benson, eds., JAI Press, 2000
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2020
Robert Agnew, Cesar J. Rebellon and Sherod Thaxton
Emory University, University of New Hampshire and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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General Strain Theory, Juvenile Delinquency

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Leveraging Death

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 103, No. 2, 2013, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-42, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 13-23
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 30 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2016
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Plea Bargaining, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty

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When Old Habits Die Hard: A Comment on Sander and Steinbuch's “Mismatch and Bar Passage”

UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-12, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 22-03
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 09 May 2023
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Affirmative Action, Bar Exam, Legal Education, Mismatch, Race

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How Not to Lie About Affirmative Action

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 5, 2020, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-27
Number of pages: 205 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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bar exam, mismatch, affirmative action, racial discrimination, legal education, law school, lawyers, attorneys

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A General Strain Theory of Racial Differences in Criminal Offending

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Oct 2015
Joanne M. Kaufman, Cesar J. Rebellon, Sherod Thaxton and Robert Agnew
State University of New York (SUNY) - Sociology, University of New Hampshire, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Emory University
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criminology, juvenile delinquency

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Disciplining Death: Assessing and Ameliorating Arbitrariness in Capital Charging

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2017, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 16-03, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-08
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 05 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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capital punishment, death penalty, criminal law, criminal procedure

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When Criminal Coping is Likely: An Examination of Conditioning Effects in General Strain Theory

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2018, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-45
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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general strain theory, interaction effects, nonlinear effects, generalized additive models, juvenile delinquency

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Race, Place, and Capital Charging in Georgia

Mercer Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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capital punishment, death penalty, criminal law, criminal procedure

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Race and Privilege Misunderstood: Athletics and Selective College Admissions in (and Beyond) the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases

70 UCLA Law Review Discourse 230 (2023), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-14
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2023
Uma Jayakumar, William Kidder, Eddie Comeaux and Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Riverside (UCR), UCLA Civil Rights Project, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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affirmative action, athletics, college admissions, race, black, latinx, native american, asian american, white, privilege, country club sports, Harvard, University of North Carolina, Supreme Court, University of California, race-neutral, adverse impact, admissions by exception, international student

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Shrinking the Accountability Deficit in Capital Charging

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution, Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine & Russell Gold, eds., Oxford University Press, 2020, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-29
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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capital punishment, death penalty, prosecutorial discretion, plea bargaining, miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, reversible error

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Un-Gregg-ulated: Capital Charging and the Missing Mandate of Gregg v. Georgia

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1 & 2, 2016, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-42
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2016
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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capital punishment, death penalty, criminal law, criminal procedure

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Disentangling Disparity: Exploring Racially Disparate Effect and Treatment in Capital Charging

American Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2018, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-46
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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capital punishment, death penalty, prosecutorial discretion, plea bargaining, racism, discrimination, equal protection

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Does Victimization Reduce Self-Control? A Longitudinal Analysis

Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 26 Oct 2015
Robert Agnew, Heather Scheuerman, Jessica Grosholz, Deena Isom, Lesley Watson and Sherod Thaxton
Emory University, James Madison University, University of South Florida - Sarasota Campus, University of South Carolina, Emory University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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criminology, juvenile

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The Nonlinear Effects of Parental and Teacher Attachment on Delinquency: Disentangling Strain from Social Control Explanations

Justice Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2004
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Oct 2015
Sherod Thaxton and Robert Agnew
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Emory University
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Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, General Strain Theory

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Determining ‘Reasonableness’ Without a Reason? Federal Appellate Review Post-Rita v. United States

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 4, 2008
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2012
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Do Frustrated Economic Expectations and Objective Economic Inequity Promote Crime?

European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Oct 2015
Cesar J. Rebellon, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Alex R. Piquero and Sherod Thaxton
University of New Hampshire, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), University of Texas at Dallas - School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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criminology, juvenile delinquency

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Metrics of Mayhem: Quantifying Capriciousness in Capital Cases

The Eighth Amendment and it's Future in a New Age of Punishment, Meghan Ryan & William Berry, eds., Cambridge University Press 2020, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-28
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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death penalty, capital punishment, capriciousness, Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual punishment, social science

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Reexamining the Link between Parental Knowledge and Delinquency: Unpacking the Influence of Adolescents’ and Parents’ Perceptions

Deviant Behavior, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2019, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-54
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Heather Scheuerman, Jessica Grosholz and Sherod Thaxton
James Madison University, University of South Florida - Sarasota Campus and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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juvenile delinquency, parental monitoring, parental attachment, interaction effects, conditioning effects,

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The Social Geometry of Death: Social Structure and Capital Punishment in Georgia, 1993-2000

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2014
Sherod Thaxton
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

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Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Law and Society, Empirical Legal Studies