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- catalog abstract "A study of capital punishment issues, including American attitudes, deterence problems, and discussions for and against the death penalty.".
- catalog contributor b1122030.
- catalog created "1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1982.".
- catalog description "1. Background and developments -- 2. The laws, the crimes, and the executions. Offenses punishable by death -- Volume and rate of murder -- The death sentence and executions -- 3. American attitudes toward the death penalty. Research on attitudes toward capital punishment / Neil Vidmar and Phoebe C. Ellsworth -- Recent survey research data on the death penalty -- 4. Deterrence : problems, doctrines, and evidence. Preventive effects of capital punishment other than deterrence / Jack P. Gibbs -- The deterrent effect of the death penalty : facts v. faith / Hans Zeisel -- The deterrent effect of capital punishment : an assessment of the evidence / Lawrence R. Klein, Brian Forst, and Victor Filatov -- The deterrent effect of the death penalty upon prison murder / Wendy Phillips Wolfson -- Recidivism, parole, and deterrence -- Terrorism and the death penalty / Thomas Perry Thornton.".
- catalog description "5. Criminal justice and the capital offender. Racial discrimination, rape, and the death penalty / Marvin E. Wolfgang and Marc Riedel -- Racial discrimination and criminal homicide under post-Furman capital statutes / William J. Bowers and Glenn L. Pierce -- Spenkelink's last appeal / Ramsey Clark -- Miscarriages of justice and the death penalty -- The cost of the death penalty / Barry Nakell -- 6. Is the death penalty "cruel and unusual" punishment? Most death penalties are unconstitutional : Furman v. Georgia (1972) -- The death penalty is not per se unconstitutional : Gregg v. Georgia (1976) -- Mandatory death penalties for murder are unconstitutional : Woodson v. North Carolina (1976) -- The mandatory death penalty for killing a police officer : Harry Roberts v. Louisiana (1977) -- The death penalty for rape : Coker v. Georgia (1977).".
- catalog description "7. For the death penalty. On behalf of the death penalty / Glen D. King -- Capital punishment as a matter of legislative policy / Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate -- Statement on the constitutionality of a proposed federal death penalty / Mary C. Lawton -- In defense of the death penalty : a practical and moral analysis / Ernest van den Haag -- The morality of anger / Walter Berns -- 8. Against the death penalty : Capital punishment / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- Death sentences and our criminal justice system / Charles L. Black, Jr. -- In opposition to death penalty legislation / Henry Schwarzschild -- A Christian perspective / John Howard Yoder -- Proposal for a Presidential Commission on the death penalty in the United States of America / Amnesty International.".
- catalog description "A study of capital punishment issues, including American attitudes, deterence problems, and discussions for and against the death penalty.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 383-406.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 424 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Death penalty in America.".
- catalog identifier "0195029860".
- catalog identifier "0195029879 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Death penalty in America.".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Death penalty in America.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Capital punishment United States.".
- catalog subject "HV8699.U5 D365 1982".
- catalog subject "KF9227.C2 D42 1982".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Background and developments -- 2. The laws, the crimes, and the executions. Offenses punishable by death -- Volume and rate of murder -- The death sentence and executions -- 3. American attitudes toward the death penalty. Research on attitudes toward capital punishment / Neil Vidmar and Phoebe C. Ellsworth -- Recent survey research data on the death penalty -- 4. Deterrence : problems, doctrines, and evidence. Preventive effects of capital punishment other than deterrence / Jack P. Gibbs -- The deterrent effect of the death penalty : facts v. faith / Hans Zeisel -- The deterrent effect of capital punishment : an assessment of the evidence / Lawrence R. Klein, Brian Forst, and Victor Filatov -- The deterrent effect of the death penalty upon prison murder / Wendy Phillips Wolfson -- Recidivism, parole, and deterrence -- Terrorism and the death penalty / Thomas Perry Thornton.".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Criminal justice and the capital offender. Racial discrimination, rape, and the death penalty / Marvin E. Wolfgang and Marc Riedel -- Racial discrimination and criminal homicide under post-Furman capital statutes / William J. Bowers and Glenn L. Pierce -- Spenkelink's last appeal / Ramsey Clark -- Miscarriages of justice and the death penalty -- The cost of the death penalty / Barry Nakell -- 6. Is the death penalty "cruel and unusual" punishment? Most death penalties are unconstitutional : Furman v. Georgia (1972) -- The death penalty is not per se unconstitutional : Gregg v. Georgia (1976) -- Mandatory death penalties for murder are unconstitutional : Woodson v. North Carolina (1976) -- The mandatory death penalty for killing a police officer : Harry Roberts v. Louisiana (1977) -- The death penalty for rape : Coker v. Georgia (1977).".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. For the death penalty. On behalf of the death penalty / Glen D. King -- Capital punishment as a matter of legislative policy / Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate -- Statement on the constitutionality of a proposed federal death penalty / Mary C. Lawton -- In defense of the death penalty : a practical and moral analysis / Ernest van den Haag -- The morality of anger / Walter Berns -- 8. Against the death penalty : Capital punishment / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- Death sentences and our criminal justice system / Charles L. Black, Jr. -- In opposition to death penalty legislation / Henry Schwarzschild -- A Christian perspective / John Howard Yoder -- Proposal for a Presidential Commission on the death penalty in the United States of America / Amnesty International.".
- catalog title "The Death penalty in America / edited by Hugo Adam Bedau.".
- catalog type "text".