Accession Number PB2012-111177
Title Deterrence and the Death Penalty.
Publication Date 2012
Media Count 144p
Personal Author D. S. Nagin J. V. Pepper
Abstract In 1976, the Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia (428 U.S. 153) ended the 4-year moratorium on executions that had resulted from its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia (408 U.S. 238). In the immediate aftermath of Gregg, an earlier report of the National Research Council (NRC) reviewed the evidence relating to the deterrent effect of the death penalty that had been gathered through the mid-1970s. That review was highly critical of the earlier research and concluded (National Research Council, 1978, p. 9) that available studies provide no useful evidence on the deterrent effect of capital punishment. During the 35 years since Gregg, and particularly in the past decade, many additional studies have renewed the attempt to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Most researchers have used post-Gregg data from the United States to examine the statistical association between homicide rates and the legal status, the actual implementation of the death penalty, or both.
Keywords Capital punishment
Crimes
Criminal justice
Death
Deterrence
Homicide
Implementation
Legal aspects
Murder
Penalties
Statistical data


 
Source Agency National Academy of Science National Research Council
NTIS Subject Category 91C - Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice
43 - Problem Solving Information for State & Local Governments
92D - Education, Law, & Humanities
92C - Social Concerns
70F - Public Administration & Government
Corporate Author National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
Document Type Technical report
Title Note N/A
NTIS Issue Number 1220
Contract Number N/A

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