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Questioning capital punishment : law, policy, and practice / James R. Acker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Criminology and justice studies seriesPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2014Description: xv, 400 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415639439 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415639433 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415639446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415639441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.660973 23
LOC classification:
  • KF9227.C2 A73 2014
Contents:
Retribution (just deserts) -- Deterrence -- Incapacitation, cost, and consideration for victims -- Capital punishment for murder : sentencing criteria and procedures -- Proportionality : offenses and offenders -- The new death-penalty laws in application : race discrimination and arbitrariness -- Defense attorneys and capital jurors -- Capital errors : procedural issues and actual innocence -- The final stages : death row, clemency, execution.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-388) and index.

Retribution (just deserts) -- Deterrence -- Incapacitation, cost, and consideration for victims -- Capital punishment for murder : sentencing criteria and procedures -- Proportionality : offenses and offenders -- The new death-penalty laws in application : race discrimination and arbitrariness -- Defense attorneys and capital jurors -- Capital errors : procedural issues and actual innocence -- The final stages : death row, clemency, execution.

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