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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hugo Adam Bedau; Chester M Pierce; American Orthopsychiatric Association. |
| ISBN: | 0404103251 9780404103255 |
| OCLC Number: | 2089444 |
| Description: | xxiii, 567 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The role of the social sciences in determining the constitutionality of capital punishment / Welsh S. White -- Rational criteria for the impostion of the death penalty / United States Senate -- The inutility of mandatory capital punishment : an historical note / Philip E. Mackey -- Felony murder rape and the mandatory death penalty : a study in discretionary justice / Hugo A. Bedau -- The going price of criminal homicide in Philadelphia / Franklin E. Zimring, Shiela O'Malley, & Joel Eigen -- Rape, racial, discrimination, and the death penalty / Marvin E. Wolfgang & Marc Riedel --Public opinion on the death penalty / Neil Vidmar & Phoebe C. Ellsworth -- Public opinion and judicial decision making : an example from research on capital punishment / Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Lee Ross -- A sociological perspective on public support for capital punishment / Charles W. Thomas & Samuel C. Foster -- The public and the death penalty : testing the Marshall hypothesis / Austin D. Sarat & Neil Vidmar -- Family experience and public support of the death penalty / Richard J. Gelles & Murray A. Straus -- Moral judgments about capital punishment : a developmental-psychological view / Lawrence Kohlberg & Donald Elfenbein -- Capital punishment and the deterrence doctrine / Jack P. Gibbs & Maynard L. Erickson -- Murder and capital punishment : some further evidence / William C. Bailey -- Rape and the death penalty : a neglected area of deterrence research / William C. Bailey -- The deterrence controversy : a reconsideration of the time series evidence / Peter Passell & John B. Taylor -- The illusion of deterrence in Isaac Ehrlich's research on capital punishment / William J. Bowers & Glenn L. Pierce -- The deterrent effect of the death penalty : a statistical test / Peter Passell -- Psychiatric reflections on the death penalty / Louis L. West -- Capital punishment as suicide and as murder / George F. Solomon -- Murder and the death penalty : a case report / Bernard L. Diamond -- New data on the effect of a 'Death Qualified' jury on the guilt determination process / George L. Jurow -- Interpreting the Eighth Amendment : perceived seriousness of crime and severity of punishment / Lee Hamilton & Laurence Rotkin -- Inmate responses to lengthy death row confinement / Johnnie L. Gallemore -- Pre- and post-Furman comparisons and characterstics of offenders under death sentences / Marc Riedel. |
| Responsibility: | edited, by Hugo Adam Bedau and Chester M. Pierce. |
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