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Challenging capital punishment : legal and social science approaches / Kenneth C. Haas, James A. Inciardi, editors.
- Title
- Challenging capital punishment : legal and social science approaches / Kenneth C. Haas, James A. Inciardi, editors.
- Publication
- Newbury Park : Sage Publications, c1988.
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- Description
- 302 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sage criminal justice systems annual ; v. 24
- Uniform Title
- Sage criminal justice system annuals ; v. 24.
- Subject
- Capital punishment > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Lingering doubts about a popular punishment / Kenneth C. Haas and James A. Inciadi. -- The justice of the death penalty in an unjust world / Jeffrey Reiman. -- The effect of executions is brutalization, not deterrence / William J. Bowers. -- Fallibility and finality: type II errors and capital punishment / Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Besau. -- Racial considerations in capital punishment: the failure of evenhanded justice / Raymond Paternoster and Annmarie Kazyaka. -- Death by jury / Valerie P. Hans. -- Unpleasant facts: the Supreme Court's response to empirical research on capital punishment / Phoebe C. Ellsworth. -- A case study of the misuse of social science in capital punishment cases: the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's finding of racial discrimination in Watson (1980) / Dennis D. Dorin. -- Imposing the death penalty on children / Victor L. Streib. -- Death row : hope for the future / John L. Carroll.
- ISBN
- 0803929099
- 0803929102 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^87032092^
- OCLC
- 17108621
- SCSB-10352180
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library