The geography of execution : the capital punishment quagmire in America
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The geography of execution : the capital punishment quagmire in America
Rowman & Littlefield, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The perennially controversial issue of capital punishment has generated especially passionate debate in recent years. In this book, two noted experts on crime provide a geo-historical perspective on capital punishment, showing vividly the incoherencies and contradictions in policies and practices across the country. Going back to the earliest U.S. executions, the authors challenge the belief that capital punishment serves as a deterrent. Using state-of-the-art methods drawn from geographic information systems (GIS), they illustrate the culture of capital punishment and its impact on selected groups, mapping the execution of women, for example, and the origin and diffusion of electrocution, the gas chamber, and lethal injection. This book will be indispensable to anyone-scholar, policy maker, or lay person-who must be informed on the issue of capital punishment.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Issue in Context Chapter 2 The Historical Geography of Capital Punishment in America Chapter 3 Capital Punishment and State Corrections Systems: Is There an Impending Crisis? Chapter 4 The Geography of Capital Punishment and Homicide: Regions of Violence Chapter 5 Capital Punishment, Race, and Gender Chapter 6 Capital Punishment and the Deterrence of Violent Crime in Comparable Counties Chapter 7 The Life-Without-Parole Sanction Chapter 8 Epilogue Chapter 9 Appendices Chapter 10 Index
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