CRIM 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Perjury, Infant Mortality, Intellectual Disability
10 Sep 2017
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Chapter 14: capital punishment: the myth of murder as effective crime control. Researchers from disciplines as diverse as criminology, economics, political science, and history have all reached the conclusion that the death penalty is severely flawed. Chapter examines whether the death penalty is fair and impartial and affects only the most heinous of criminals, whether it serves as a general or specific deterrent, and whether it is a less expensive alternative to incarceration. Also explores jury behaviour, wrongful convictions, and the death penalty for juveniles. In 1972 the united states supreme court ruled in furman v. georgia that existing death penalty statutes were implemented in an arbitrary and capricious manner with great potential for racial discrimination. Mitigators also are statutory and vary by state: some states, diminished capacity due to drugs or alcohol is a mitigating factor. Discriminatory practices have been identified based on race, gender of the victim and defendant, and social class of the defendant.
