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Author : Carsten Anckar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134315468
This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors.
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309254168
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
Author : David Lester
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062297408
Is the death penalty a deterrent? Is it applied disproportionately to certain ethnic groups? How harsh is life on death row? In this expanded new edition the author examines these and other controversial issues, draws conclusions from the current research, and discusses their implication for social policy. Topics such as capital punishment policies around the world, executions in the United States, public opinion on the death penalty, juries and the death penalty, and economic analyses of the deterrent factor all receive comprehensive coverage. Appendices round out this newly revised and updated text with studies on public attitudes toward rape and capital punishment, and the deterrent effect of executions on the homicide rate in the United States.
Author : Brandon Garrett,Lee Kovarsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1634603214
Softbound - New, softbound print book.
Author : Roger Hood,Carolyn Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9780198701736
The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasizing the impact of international human rights principles and evidence of abuse, the authors examine how this has fueled challenges to the death penalty and they analyze and appraise the likely obstacles, political and cultural, to further abolition. They discuss the cruel realities of the death penalty and the failure of international standards always to ensure fair trials and to avoid arbitrariness, discrimination and conviction of the innocent: all violations of the right to life. They provide further evidence of the lack of a general deterrent effect; shed new light on the influence and limits of public opinion; and argue that substituting for the death penalty life imprisonment without parole raises many similar human rights concerns. This edition provides a strong intellectual and evidential basis for regarding capital punishment as undeniably cruel, inhuman and degrading. Widely relied upon and fully updated to reflect the current state of affairs worldwide, this is an invaluable resource for all those who study the death penalty and work towards its removal as an international goal.
Author : Victor L. Streib
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063696939
Covering both the substantive law and the procedural law of the death penalty, this title begins with the arguments for and against the death penalty and an explanation of its basic constitutional challenges and limitations. Major sections cover capital crimes and defenses, as well as trial level and post-trial procedural issues. Special topics such as race and gender bias and executing the innocent are included, as well as a section on international and foreign law issues. This Nutshell serves both as supplemental reading for students in death penalty courses and as a concise, narrative explanation of death penalty law.
Author : Nina Rivkind,Steven F. Shatz
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060996951
Author : Carsten Anckar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134315451
Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors. Separate studies are conducted for democracies and non-democracies and within four regional contexts. The book also contains an in-depth investigation into determinants of the death penalty in the USA.
Author : Roger Hood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041057873
A report to the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control.
Author : United States. Dept. of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : IND:30000107670089
Author : Meghan J. Ryan,William W. Berry III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108498579
A theoretical and practical exploration of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive bail, and excessive fines.
Author : David Wills
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823283507
Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or perverting, the machinery of time that is already attached to human existence. Time, Wills argues, functions for us in general as a prosthetic technology, but the application of the death penalty represents a new level of prosthetic intervention into what constitutes the human. Killing Times traces the logic of the death penalty across a range of sites. Starting with the legal cases whereby American courts have struggled to articulate what methods of execution constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,” Wills goes on to show the ways that technologies of death have themselves evolved in conjunction with ideas of cruelty and instantaneity, from the development of the guillotine and the trap door for hanging, through the firing squad and the electric chair, through today’s controversies surrounding lethal injection. Responding to the legal system’s repeated recourse to storytelling—prosecutors’ and politicians’ endless recounting of the horrors of crimes—Wills gives a careful eye to the narrative, even fictive spaces that surround crime and punishment. Many of the controversies surrounding capital punishment, Wills argues, revolve around the complex temporality of the death penalty: how its instant works in conjunction with forms of suspension, or extension of time; how its seeming correlation between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated by a number of different discourses. By pinpointing the temporal technology that marks the death penalty, Wills is able to show capital punishment’s expansive reach, tracing the ways it has come to govern not only executions within the judicial system, but also the opposed but linked categories of the suicide bombing and drone warfare. In discussing the temporal technology of death, Wills elaborates the workings both of the terrorist who produces a simultaneity of crime and “punishment” that bypasses judicial process, and of the security state, in whose remote-control killings the time-space coordinates of “justice” are compressed and at the same time disappear into the black hole of secrecy. Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes the question of capital punishment beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.
Author : Brandon Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674970991
Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.
Author : Ivan Šimonović
Publisher : UN
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9211542154
Capital punishment is irrevocable. It prohibits the correction of mistakes by the justice system and leaves no room for human error, with the gravest of consequences. There is no evidence of a deterrent effect of the death penalty. Those sacrificed on the altar of retributive justice are almost always the most vulnerable. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the discriminatory application of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, proven lack of deterrence effect, to legality of the capital punishment under international law and the morality of taking of human life.
Author : Terance D. Miethe,Hong Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052184407X
This 2005 book examines punishment in different forms, including corporal and economic punishment.