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The geography of execution : the capital punishment quagmire in America / Keith Harries, Derral Cheatwood.
- Title
- The geography of execution : the capital punishment quagmire in America / Keith Harries, Derral Cheatwood.
- Author
- Harries, Keith D.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV8699.U5 H37 1997 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Cheatwood, Derral.
- Description
- xiii, 156 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- The issue in context -- The historical geography of capital punishment in America -- Capital punishment and state corrections systems: is there an impending crisis? -- The geography of capital punishment and homicide: regions of violence -- Capital punishment, race and gender -- Capital punishment and the deterrence of violent crime in comparable countries -- The life-without-parole sanction --Epilogue -- Appendix I: Changes in the Espy file between 1986 and 1995 -- Appendix II: States and their methods of execution -- Appendix III: Technical notes.
- ISBN
- 0847681564 (alk. paper)
- 0847681572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96043347^
- OCLC
- 35521723
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library