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xiv, 584 pages : 19 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574) and index The laws, the crimes, and the executions -- Offenses punishable by death -- Juveniles and capital punishment -- Volume and rate of capital crimes -- A sociological analysis of criminal homicide -- The death sentence, 1960 -- Executions 1962 -- The argument for the death penalty -- Christianity and the death penalty -- Statements in favor of the death penalty -- The death sentence -- The argument against the death penalty -- Judaism and the death penalty -- A protestant's view of the death penalty -- Is the death penalty unconstitutional? -- Public opinion and the death penalty -- Attitudes of wardens toward the death penalty -- Attitudes of state police toward the death penalty -- Death and imprisonment as deterrents to murder -- Does the death penalty protect municipal police? -- Does the death penalty protect state police? -- The deterrent effect of capital punishment in Philadelphia and California -- Effect of repeal and reintroduction of the death penalty on homicide rates -- Abolition and restoration of the death penalty in Oregon, Missouri, and Delaware -- The struggle over capital punishment

Author

Bedau, Hugo Adam

Publisher

Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books

Published

1964

Language

EN