The Geography of Execution: The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America - Couverture rigide

Harries, Keith; Cheatwood, Derral

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0847681564 ISBN 13 : 9780847681563

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1996

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0847681564
• ISBN 13: 9780847681563
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible