The Death Penalty: America's Experience with Capital Punishment

by Raymond Paternoster, Sarah Bacon, Robert Brame

Book Overview

This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today--the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view.

Topics include:

* The history of the death penalty in the United States, from the 1600s to today
*...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195332423
• ISBN13: 9780195332421
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"