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The Geography of Execution: The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America
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Titel: The Geography of Execution: The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America
Autor/en: Keith Harries, Derral Cheatwood
ISBN: 0847681572
EAN: 9780847681570
Autor/en: Keith Harries, Derral Cheatwood
ISBN: 0847681572
EAN: 9780847681570
Sprache: Englisch.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
1. Januar 1997 - kartoniert - 156 Seiten
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.
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
Keith Harries is professor of geography at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Derral Cheatwood is director of social sciences and professor of criminal justice at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
Harries and Cheatwood make good use of geographical analysis to establish the existence of 'regions of violence' where high rates of homocide and high rates of legal execution coexist. The approach, and a comparative analysis of the record in selected adjacent counties, is effective in casting further doubt in the already doubtful proposition that capital punishment deters homocide ... the authors present a novel analysis of women's involvement in violent crime and punishment. -- Eliza Steelwater, Bloomington, Indiana This book is data rich. It indicates some interesting facts and trends ... worthy of media exposure and comment. -- David Evans, Staffordshire University Progress In Human Geography A novel and comprehensive picture of the issue. -- James L. LeBeau, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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