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Capital punishment
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 K44
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Capital punishment in the state of Indiana, 1816-1971
This study is an examination of the use of capital punishment in the State of Indiana, from 1897 to the date the last execution in 1961. The biographies of each of the seventy-two men executed during that period are given in detail and pertinent facts derived from them are summarize in a series of …
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Evaluating the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment on Crime
Many researchers, academics or philosophers see capital punishment as a deterrent to crime. Several states in the United States apply the death penalty to try to reduce crime. Other states do not agree with the application of this repressive law arguing that a crime should not be solved with …
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The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment
… the modern era (1976-present day) of American capital punishment. Some has focused on why the institution persists despite abolition from the rest of the Western world. An example of this is Steiker and Steiker (2016) who argue that judicial rationalization of capital law has helped to …
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Social Class and Capital Punishment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… as a theoretical account of the social class - capital punishment relationship. By drawing on the works of scholars such as Bourdieu, Kaplan, Haidt, Bandura, and Black, an integrated framework for conceptualizing the manner in which social class conditions capital decision making across various …
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Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
… to develop an attitude on the political issue of capital punishment. Using data from the 2000 National Election Study and ordered probit analysis, this research produces a multivariate, multi-stage model of death penalty attitudes. Demographic factors such as race, age, gender, and education level …
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Religious ethics, capital punishment and reconciliation in a new South Africa
… only solution. This thesis: "Religious Ethics, Capital Punishment and Reconciliation in a New South Africa," contends that reintroducing capital punishment is not a solution to the problem of violent crime, for two principal reasons: It violates the principle of legitimate pluralism as it …
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Capital punishment in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh): a legal analysis
… abolitionist movement and still fail to accept capital punishment as a human rights issue. The application of capital punishment in the Indian subcontinent is not only a violation of international human rights law but is also contradictory to the domestic constitutional provisions that guarantee …
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Capital Punishment And Race Disparities In The Modern Era: An Empirical Analysis
… race-of-victim have received ample attention in capital punishment literature, predominately in regard to death sentencing. Much less attention has been provided to the intersection of race and gender-of-victim with utilization of execution data, and research has failed to adequately address this …
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Severed Heads and Martyred Souls: Crime and Capital Punishment in French Romantic Literature
… reflecting upon the 19th-century treatment of capital punishment is important to scholars' understanding both of literary movements and of the political thought of our own time.
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Divinely ordained death? Exploring religious determinants of support for capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia
… attitudes toward three cases of unnatural death: capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia. One considerable factor which shapes individuals’ attitudes toward human intervention in death is religion. Another salient determinant is the effect of racial differences. This dissertation argues that …
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Sounding the last mile: Music and capital punishment in the United States since 1976
… the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital punishment has drastically waxed and waned in both implementation and popularity throughout much of the country. While studying opinion polls, quantitative data, and legislation can help make sense of this phenomenon, careful attention to …
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The <i>Imaginaire</i> of Capital Punishment in England, France, and Italy, 1250-1350
… by exploring five facets of the imaginaire of capital punishment between 1250 and 1350, in France, Italy, and England. This dissertation aims to demonstrate that capital punishment was an experience governed by a collective mental landscape, or imaginaire, which structured the understanding, …
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The politics of the rope: the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969
… perspective. It looks briefly at the history of capital punishment in this country so as to set the campaign in context. It focuses on the chief pressure group set up to lobby for abolition, the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment (NCACP), and examines in detail its …
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Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment
… influence public opinion as well as impact capital punishment policies. This content analysis examined the portrayal of one dozen different serial killers using 120 online media reports which included articles published between the 1970s to present day. Results of the analysis showed serial …
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Homicide, Capital Punishment, and Gun Ownership: An Aggregate Analysis of u.s. Homicide Trends From 1947 to 1976
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009075.pdf: 6408785 bytes, checksum: f42a3745a3fc5fc743856aa70c1d80c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Testing The Marshall Hypothesis: A Survey Among Justice And Safety College Students
… Marshall postulated that levels of support for capital punishment are associated with the amount of knowledge about the death penalty process. He suggested that exposure to information about capital punishment produces sentiments in opposition to capital punishment except in instances for which …
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