Capital punishment in the United States / edited, by Hugo Adam Bedau and Chester M. Pierce.
| Other author | Bedau, Hugo Adam. |
| Other author | Pierce, Chester M. |
| Other author | American Orthopsychiatric Association. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Published for the American Orthopsychiatric Association [by] AMS Press, ©1976. |
| Description | xxiii, 567 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The role of the social sciences in determining the constitutionality of capital punishment / Welsh S. White -- Rational criteria for the imposition of the death penalty / United States Senate -- The inutility of mandatory capital punishment : an historical note / Philip E. Mackey -- Felony murder rape and the mandatory death penalty : a study in discretionary justice / Hugo A. Bedau -- The going price of criminal homicide in Philadelphia / Franklin E. Zimring, Shiela O'Malley, & Joel Eigen -- Rape, racial, discrimination, and the death penalty / Marvin E. Wolfgang & Marc Riedel --Public opinion on the death penalty / Neil Vidmar & Phoebe C. Ellsworth -- Public opinion and judicial decision making : an example from research on capital punishment / Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Lee Ross -- A sociological perspective on public support for capital punishment / Charles W. Thomas & Samuel C. Foster -- The public and the death penalty : testing the Marshall hypothesis / Austin D. Sarat & Neil Vidmar -- Family experience and public support of the death penalty / Richard J. Gelles & Murray A. Straus -- Moral judgments about capital punishment : a developmental-psychological view / Lawrence Kohlberg & Donald Elfenbein -- |
| Contents | Capital punishment and the deterrence doctrine / Jack P. Gibbs & Maynard L. Erickson -- Murder and capital punishment : some further evidence / William C. Bailey -- Rape and the death penalty : a neglected area of deterrence research / William C. Bailey -- The deterrence controversy : a reconsideration of the time series evidence / Peter Passell & John B. Taylor -- The illusion of deterrence in Isaac Ehrlich's research on capital punishment / William J. Bowers & Glenn L. Pierce -- The deterrent effect of the death penalty : a statistical test / Peter Passell -- Psychiatric reflections on the death penalty / Louis L. West -- Capital punishment as suicide and as murder / George F. Solomon -- Murder and the death penalty : a case report / Bernard L. Diamond -- New data on the effect of a 'Death Qualified' jury on the guilt determination process / George L. Jurow -- Interpreting the Eighth Amendment : perceived seriousness of crime and severity of punishment / Lee Hamilton & Laurence Rotkin -- Inmate responses to lengthy death row confinement / Johnnie L. Gallemore -- Pre- and post-Furman comparisons and characteristics of offenders under death sentences / Marc Riedel. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and index. |
| LCCN | 76005828 |
| ISBN | 0404103251 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HV8699.U5 C32 1976 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |