Capital punishment
Subtitle: the defining issues for the next generation
By: edited by Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, James R. Acker.
Contributors: Lanier, Charles S., 1950-; Bowers, William J.; Acker, James R., 1951-
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781594604263
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Capital punishment : the defining issues for the next generation-introduction and overview / Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers and James R. Acker; title: Death penalty research today and tomorrow / Hugo Adam Bedau; title: The role of constitutional facts and social science research in capital litigation : is "proof" of arbitrariness or inaccuracy relevant to the constitutional regulation of the American death penalty? / Jordan M. Steiker; title: Why the downturn in death sentences? / William J. Bowers and Scott E. Sundby; title: The ABA death penalty moratorium implementation project : setting the stage for further research / Deborah Fleischaker; title: The National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA) : "the greatest body of evidence ever collected about the death penalty in the United States" / Charles S. Lanier; title: Racial and ethnic disparities in resolving homicides / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce; title: Perspectives, approaches, and future directions in death penalty proportionality studies / David Baldus, George Woodworth and Neil Alan Weiner; title: Empirical studies of race and geographic discrimination in the administration of the death penalty : a primer on the key methodological issues / David Baldus, George Woodworth, David Zuckerman, Neil Alan Weiner and Catherine M. Grosso; title: The capital jury experiment of the Supreme Court / William J. Bowers, Thomas W. Brewer and Charles S. Lanier; title: The future of innocence / Richard C. Dieter; title: Mental retardation and the death penalty five years after Atkins / John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Christopher Seeds; title: The effects of AEDPA on justice / David R. Dow and Eric M. Freedman; title: Toward a new perspective on clemency in the killing state / Austin Sarat; title: Death and deterrence redux : science, law and causal reasoning on capital punishment / Jeffrey Fagan and Valerie West; title: Researching future dangerousness / Jon Sorensen; title: Capital punishment and the families of victims and defendants / Margaret Vandiver; title: The cost of the death penalty in America : directions for future research / Jonathan E. Gradess and Andrew L. B. Davies; title: "Symbolic" and "instrumental" aspects of capital punishment / David Garland; title: Alternative sanctions for aggravated murder: form and function / James R. Acker; title: Life under sentence of death : some research agendas / Robert Johnson, Sandra McGunigall-Smith, Jocelyn Fontaine and Christopher Dum; title: The future of execution methods / Deborah W. Denno; title: Empirical research and capital punishment: the defining issues for the; title: Next generation / James R. Acker, William J. Bowers and Charles S. Lanier.