| The Death Penalty: America's Experience with Capital Punishment Contributor(s): Paternoster, Raymond (Author), Brame, Robert (Author), Bacon, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195332423 ISBN-13: 9780195332421 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $85.13 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 364.660 |
| LCCN: 2007299864 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 362 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. 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 |