Research Catalog

Title

Justice in the shadow of death : rethinking capital and lesser punishments / Michael Davis.

Author

Davis, Michael.

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1996.

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Details

Description

viii, 293 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

With wide public support in 1994, Congress established more than sixty new capital crimes. In Justice in the Shadow of Death, Davis argues that, if the United States is ever to join the majority of the world in abolishing capital punishment, opponents of the death penalty must make a stronger philosophical case against it. He systematically dissects the arguments in favor of capital punishment and demonstrates why they are philosophically superior to opposing arguments. Justice in the Shadow of Death is an important book for philosophers, political theorists, policy analysts, and criminal justice specialists.

Alternative Title

Rethinking capital and lesser punishments

Subject

• Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
• Capital punishment > United States > Moral and ethical aspects
• Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
• Punishment > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Is Death the Most Effective Deterrent? -- 2. The Rest of the Argument from Deterrence -- 3. The Argument from Inhumaneness -- 4. What Is Unethical about Physicians Helping at Executions? -- 5. The Argument from Irrevocability -- 6. The Argument from Proportion -- 7. Preventive Detention, Quarantine, and the Right to Punishment -- 8. Guilty but Insane? -- 9. Punishment as Language -- 10. What Does Rape Deserve? -- 11. Punishing the Bad Samaritan -- 12. Criminal Desert and Unfair Advantage.

ISBN

• 0847682706 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0847682692 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96008129^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library