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Punishment and the death penalty : the current debate

Author: Robert M Baird; Stuart E Rosenbaum
Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, ©1995.
Series: Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A collection of twenty essays by legal scholars, sociologists, and philosophers discussing the punishments for crime.
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Punishment and the death penalty.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1995
(OCoLC)654592001
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.

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A collection of twenty essays by legal scholars, sociologists, and philosophers discussing the punishments for crime.

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