Capital punishment in the U.S. states
Subtitle: executing social inequality
By: Sarah N. Archibald
Series: Criminal justice: recent scholarship
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing; Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc; LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781593327729
Subjects: Capital punishment; States; Administration of Criminal justice; Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Description: Archibald attempts to find variables that can explain the variation not only in the adoption of the death penalty, but also in the implementation of capital punishment. She combines Kingdon's Garbage Can model and Social Control Theory to explain the differences in the adoption and implementation of the death penalty. Given that there was only one model that showed a correlation between the adoption and implementation of the death penalty and homicide rates, while other variables, such as race and hate crimes, were correlated across multiple models, one could argue that the death penalty is used as a means of social control. Her results also bolster the argument that state policies are not merely reactions to murder rates, but are influenced by other sociological, political, and economic factors. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.