This workshop will focus on issues of measurement, data sources, and definition. The sessions will be organized loosely around these three themes, with session leaders functioning as facilitators. Participants are encouraged to raise specific questions prior to the workshop. Flexibility will be encouraged, and should prior questions suggest an additional theme, we will rearrange the schedule. We expect about 30 participants.
Prior registration is encouraged.
Please email Eric Monkkonen at his email address provided in the printed newsletter. The article looks at how state high courts in all of the capital punishment jurisdictions have addressed, or not addressed, proportionality review of capital cases. It also includes data on dates of reenactment, date of first death sentence imposed, upheld and first execution for every capital state. The Proportionality Review Project of the New Jersey Supreme Court is discussed in detail, and previously unpublished data on homicide in New Jersey is included. If you can't get a copy from your library, Leigh be glad to send a reprint.