Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g
America's Experience with Capital Punishment
Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-533242-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today--the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view.
Topics include:
* The history of the death penalty in the United States, from the 1600s to today
* The changing nature of the death penalty--changes in the types of crimes that warranted the penalty, the procedures employed to put capital offenders on trial, and the methods used to impose death
* Constitutional/legal issues surrounding the death penalty
* The influence of race on the administration of the death penalty, both in the past and in the present
* Justifications for and against the death penalty (retribution, cost, public safety, and religious arguments)
* Questions about the execution of innocents, exonerated capital offenders, and flaws in the operation of the death penalty
* Public opinion and the death penalty
* The death penalty and international law and practice
* The future of the death penalty in America
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Each chapter begins with an Introduction and ends with a Chapter Summary, Discussion Questions, and Further Reading.
- Part I: The Enduring Legacy of Capital Punishment in the United States
- Chapter 1. Capital Punishment in the Early Period: 1608-1929
- Capital Crimes and Capital Statutes in the Early Period
- Characteristics of Executions in the Early Period
- Changes in the Practice of the Death Penalty in the Early Period
- Methods of Execution in the Early Period
- Location of the Death Penalty in the Early Period
- Chapter 2. Capital Punishment in the Pre-Modern Period: 1930-1967
- Capital Crimes and Capital Statutes During the Premodern Period
- Characteristics of Executions in the Premodern Period
- Methods of Execution During the Premodern Period
- Location of the Death Penalty in the Premodern Period
- Chapter 3. Capital Punishment in the Modern Period: 1977-Present
- Capital Crimes and Capital Statutes During the Modern Period
- Characteristics of Executions in the Modern Period
- Methods of Execution During the Modern Period
- Location of the Death Penalty in the Modern Period
- Changes in the Practice of the Death Penalty in the Modern Period
- The Federal and Military Death Penalty
- Part II: Legal History, Constitutional Requirements, and Common Justifications for Capital Punishment in the United States
- Chapter 4. A Brief Legal History of Capital Punishment in the United States
- Early Constitutional Challenges to the Method of Imposing Death
- Constitutional Theories About What the Eighth Amendment Prohibits
- The Death Penalty's Decline in Popularity and Challenges to Its Constitutionality
- The Death Penalty is not Procedurally Flawed--The Case of McGautha v. California
- The Death Penalty as Currently Administered is so Procedurally Flawed That It Constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment--The Case of Furman v. Georgia
- Chapter 5. Constitutional Requirements for Capital Punishment in the United States
- The Response to Furman: Mandatory and Guided Discretion Capital Statutes
- The Execution of Special Groups--The Young, The Retarded and the Mentally Ill
- Chapter 6. Common Justifications for the Death Penalty
- Retribution: The Moral Argument for the Death Penalty
- Cost: The Financial Argument for the Death Penalty
- Incapacitation: One of the Public Safety Arguments for the Death Penalty
- General Deterrence: The Other Public Safety Argument for the Death Penalty
- Religious Positions for and Against the Death Penalty
- Part III: The Administration of the Death Penalty: Issues of Race and Human Fallibility
- Chapter 7. Race, the Law, and Punishment
- The Peculiar Institution
- Race and Legal Institutions After the Civil War
- Chapter 8. Race and Capital Punishment
- Race and Capital Punishment: 1930-1967
- Evidence of Racially Disparate Treatment in the Courts
- Race and Capital Punishment: 1997-Present
- Post-Furman Evidence of Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing Before the Courts--McCleskey v. Kemp
- Chapter 9. Problems in Administering the Death Penalty
- The Possibly Innocent
- The Exonerated
- A Broken System
- Part IV: What's to Come of the Death Penalty
- Chapter 10. Capital Punishment in America's Future
- Public Support for the Death Penalty in the United States
- The Death Penalty in Other Countries
- Predictions About the Future of the Death Penalty in America
- What About Life Without the Possibility of Parole?
