The future of America's death penalty : an agenda for the next generation of capital punishment research / edited by Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, James R. Acker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lanier, Charles S., 1950-

Bowers, William J.

Acker, James R., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

Pena de muerte--Estados Unidos.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Pena de muerte--Estados Unidos.

Physical Description:

xxix, 552 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©2009.

Summary:

"This book provides a unique look not at what we know, but at what we need to know about the death penalty in America. These essays by leading scholars and researchers seek to delineate the directions research on the death penalty should take at this juncture in the history of capital punishment. The authors were asked to identify the questions in their areas of expertise that are most urgently in need of answers, and to sketch out how best to obtain those answers; that is, we invited them to anticipate the research issues and methodologies that will be most important in helping inform the legal and public policy decisions that will determine the future of capital punishment in this country". -- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction and Overview-The Future of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research / James R. Acker / Charles S. Lanier / William J. Bowers

Sect. I General Research Directions and Challenges

Ch. 2 Death Penalty Research Today and Tomorrow / Hugo Adam Bedau

Ch. 3 The Role of Constitutional Facts and Social Science Research in Capital Litigation: Is "Proof" of Arbitrariness or Inaccuracy Relevant to the Constitutional Regulation of the American Death Penalty? / Jordan M. Steiker

Ch. 4 Why the Downturn in Death Sentences? / Scott E. Sundby / William J. Bowers

Ch. 5 The ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project: Setting the Stage for Further Research / Deborah Fleischaker

Ch. 6 The National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA): "The Greatest Body of Evidence Ever Collected about the Death Penalty in the United States" / Charles S. Lanier

Sect. II The Process Leading to a Capital Sentence

Ch. 7 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Resolving Homicides / Glenn L. Pierce / Michael L. Radelet

Ch. 8 Perspectives, Approaches, and Future Directions in Death Penalty Proportionality Studies / David Baldus / George Woodworth / Neil Alan Weiner

Ch. 9 Empirical Studies of Race and Geographic Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty: A Primer on the Key Methodological Issues / Catherine M. Gross / Neil Alan Weiner / David Baldus / David Zuckerman / George Woodworth

Ch. 10 The Capital Jury Experiment of the Supreme Court / William J. Bowers / Thomas W. Brewer / Charles S. Lanier

Sect. III The Process Beyond the Sentencing Decision

Ch. 11 The Future of Innocence / Richard C. Dieter

Ch. 12 Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty Five Years after Atkins / Sheri Lynn Johnson / John H. Blume / Christopher Seeds

Ch. 13 The Effects of AEDPA on Justice / Eric M. Freedman / David R. Dow

Ch. 14 Toward a New Perspective on Clemency in the Killing State / Austin Sarat

Sect. IV The Utility and Efficacy of the Capital Sanction

Ch. 15 Death and Deterrence Redux: Science, Law and Causal Reasoning on Capital Punishment / Jeffrey Fagan / Valerie West

Ch. 16 Researching Future Dangerousness / Jon Sorensen

Ch. 17 Capital Punishment and the Families of Victims and Defendants / Margaret Vandiver

Ch. 18 The Cost of the Death Penalty in America: Directions for Future Research / Andrew L. B. Davies / Jonathan E. Gradess

Sect. V Examining the Punishment of Death

Ch. 19 "Symbolic" and "Instrumental" Aspects of Capital Punishment / David Garland

Ch. 20 Alternative Sanctions for Aggravated Murder: Form and Function / James R. Acker

Ch. 21 Life under Sentence of Death: Some Research Agendas / Christopher Dum / Jocelyn Fontaine / Robert Johnson / Sandra McGunigall-Smith

Ch. 22 The Future of Execution Methods / Deborah W. Denno

Ch. 23 Conclusion-An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research / William J. Bowers / James R. Acker / Charles S. Lanier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594604263

1594604266

OCLC:

213401035

Publisher Number:

99993275699