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THE DEATH PENALTY
AMERICA'S EXPERIENCE WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT |
| By: |
Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon |
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Paperback |
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£77.99 |
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£68.24 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195332423 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195332421 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2007 |
| Pages: |
362 |
| Description: |
This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today-the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view. |
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This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today-the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view. Topics include: * The history of the death penalty in the United States, from the 1600s to today * The changing nature of the death penalty-changes in the types of crimes that warranted the penalty, the procedures employed to put capital offenders on trial, and the methods used to impose death * Constitutional/legal issues surrounding the death penalty * The influence of race on the administration of the death penalty, both in the past and in the present * Justifications for and against the death penalty (retribution, cost, public safety, and religious arguments) * Questions about the execution of innocents, exonerated capital offenders, and flaws in the operation of the death penalty * Public opinion and the death penalty * The death penalty and international law and practice * The future of the death penalty in America |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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Returnable |
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