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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Punishment and the death penalty. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1995 (OCoLC)654592001 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert M Baird; Stuart E Rosenbaum |
| ISBN: | 0879759461 9780879759469 |
| OCLC Number: | 31783019 |
| Description: | 258 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Punishment / J.D. Mabbott -- Two concepts of rules / John Rawls -- Therapy, not punishment / Karl Menninger -- Punishment v. rehabilitation / Richard Wasserstrom -- Persons and punishment / Herbert Morris -- Playing fair with punishment / Richard Dagger -- Punishment of the innocent / Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, & Constance E. Putnam -- A general history of capital punishment in America / Information Plus -- The crusade against capital punishment / J. Gordon Melton -- On deterrence and the death penalty - Ernest van den Haag -- Casting the first stone / Lloyd Steffen -- In spite of innocence : erroneous convictions in capital cases / Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, & Constance E. Putnam -- The morality of anger / Walter Berns -- Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered? / Stephen Nathanson -- Justice, civilization, and the death penalty : answering van den Haag / Jeffrey H. Reiman -- Refuting Reiman and Nathanson / Ernest van den Haag -- Safely executed / Christie Davies -- Capital punishment and contemporary values : people's misgivings and the court's misperceptions / William Bowers -- Callins v. Collins : Justice Blackmun's dissenting opinion -- Callins v. Collins : Justice Scalia's concurring opinion. |
| Series Title: | Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. |
Abstract:
A collection of twenty essays by legal scholars, sociologists, and philosophers discussing the punishments for crime.
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