Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates?: The Views of Leading Criminologists
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 10, 2013
ANNOTATION: 'In this Article we report results from a survey of the world's leading criminologists that asked their expert opinions on whether the empirical research supports the contention that the death penalty is a superior deterrent. The findings demonstrate an overwhelming consensus among these criminologists that the empirical research conducted on the deterrence question strongly supports the conclusion that the death penalty does not add deterrent effects to those already achieved by long imprisonment' (p. 489-490). Sections comprising this publication are: introduction; background'the Mocan-Gittings study, the Emory studies, and other recent deterrence studies; methodology; results for ten questions; and conclusion.
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