The Death Penalty Enquiry, Being a Review of the Evidence Before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment, 1930
Author: Eric Roy Calvert
Publisher: London : V. Gollancz
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 140
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Author: Eric Roy Calvert
Publisher: London : V. Gollancz
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1973
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Roy Calvert
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Published: 1931
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: N. H. Twitchell
Publisher: Arena books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1906791988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the definitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so extensively before. From the sphere of governmental and parliamentary politics, to the relevant pressure groups, to the role of the mass media, to the significance of the different churches, and the influence of professional bodies, such as those representing the police and prison officers, the book skilfully identifies their interaction with one another. It examines the effect on the campaign of fluctuations in public opinion, and of controversial murder cases such as those of Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty, which in turn often informed the state of public opinion The work sets the campaign in the context of the social and cultural ferment of the era (the advent of the permissive society), and contrasts the fortunes of the movement with those of other "conscience issues," such as the legalisation of abortion, homosexual law reform, divorce liberalisation and the abolition of theatre censorship. It seeks to account for the success of the campaign within a relatively short time span in the face of intense public antipathy and a concerted effort by various elements of the establishment to thwart its fulfilment. It asks why the campaign succeeded when so many others facing lesser institutional obstacles failed, and it asks why it succeeded when it did and in the way it did, and considers whether the success of the campaign can be accounted for by the Zeitgeist. On one level it is a study of the politics of social reform, but at a deeper level it is a study of the way in which social trends feed through into political action at the parliamentary level, and illustrates the process of policy formation in the area of private members legislation and free votes where "party" has voluntarily taken a back seat.
Author: British Library of Political and Economic Science
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Canada. Parliament Joint Committee on Capital and Corporal Punishment and Lotteries
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 902
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-31
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1139496522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2012-05-26
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0309254167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
Author: Elizabeth Ann Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital Punishment
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 812
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