The Death Penalty

America's Experience with Capital Punishment

Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

362 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533242-1 (ISBN)

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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

Raymond Paternoster is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Office of Academic Computing Services at the University of Maryland. Robert Brame is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. Sarah Bacon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University.

PART I: THE ENDURING LEGACY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; CHAPTER 1. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE EARLY PERIOD: 1608-1929; CHAPTER 2. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE PRE-MODERN PERIOD: 1930-1967; CHAPTER 3. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE MODERN PERIOD: 1977-PRESENT; PART II: LEGAL HISTORY, CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS, AND COMMON JUSTIFICATIONS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; CHAPTER 4. A BRIEF LEGAL HISTORY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; CHAPTER 5. CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; CHAPTER 6. COMMON JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE DEATH PENALTY; PART III: THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY: ISSUES OF RACE AND HUMAN FALLIBILITY; CHAPTER 7. RACE, THE LAW, AND PUNISHMENT; CHAPTER 8. RACE AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CHAPTER 9. PROBLEMS IN ADMINISTERING THE DEATH PENALTY; PART IV: WHAT'S TO COME OF THE DEATH PENALTY; CHAPTER 10. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA'S FUTURE

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.5.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 226 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-19-533242-3 / 0195332423
ISBN-13	978-0-19-533242-1 / 9780195332421
Zustand	Neuware