The Death Penalty: Influences and Outcomes, Volume 1Austin Sarat Unsurprisingly, much of the social science research agenda on the death penalty is centered in the United States, a country that permits federal government and state governments to use death as a punishment for homicide. Scholars designed the agenda to speak on issues thought to be important in the ongoing campaign against capital punishment. Here they have focused on the adequacy of the philosophical justifications and policy rationales offered in support of the death penalty, and have also examined the outcomes of capital punishment to determine whether the process lives up to certain legal and political standards. Recently the agenda of research has broadened with particular interest in understanding the social, political, and culture life of capital punishment. Scholars seek to understand the factors that shape and influence this particularly severe form of punishment. |
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Punishment University of California Davis Law Review 18 pp 873925 | 15 |
Ernest van den Haag 1985 The Death Penalty Once More University | 72 |
Michael L Radelet and Ronald L Akers 1996 Deterrence and the Death | 85 |
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