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Not Everyone Strongly Supports the Death Penalty: Assessing Weakly-Held Attitudes About Capital Punishment

NCJ Number

210439

Journal

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

2005

Shooting Felons: Law, Practice, Official Culture, and Perceptions of Morality

NCJ Number

210431

Journal

Journal of Law and Society

Date Published

June 2005

Protecting the Innocent: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report

NCJ Number

210384

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2005

Seduction of Innocence: The Attraction and Limitations of the Focus on Innocence in Capital Punishment Law and Advocacy

NCJ Number

210385

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2005

Myth of Innocence

NCJ Number

210383

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2005

Illinois Death Penalty Reform: How it Happened, What it Promises

NCJ Number

210381

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2005

Decline of the Juvenile Death Penalty: Scientific Evidence of Evolving Norms

NCJ Number

210382

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2005

Supermax Meets Death Row: Legal Struggles Around the New Punitiveness in the U.S. (From New Punitiveness: Trends, Theories, Perspectives, P 66-84, 2005, John Pratt, David Brown, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-210217)

NCJ Number

210221

Date Published

2005

Empathy and Public Support for Capital Punishment

NCJ Number

210264

Journal

Journal of Crime & Justice

Date Published

2005

How many people are executed in the United States every year?

How many people are under a sentence of death in the United States?

Psychological Evaluation of Death Row Inmates

NCJ Number

210011

Journal

Judicature

Date Published

March 2005

Absolute Certainty and the Death Penalty

NCJ Number

209796

Journal

American Criminal Law Review

Date Published

2005

Executing the Innocent and Support for Capital Punishment: Implications for Public Policy

NCJ Number

209368

Journal

Criminology & Public Policy

Date Published

February 2005

White Female Victims and Death Penalty Disparity Research

NCJ Number

209046

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

December 2004

Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings From Death Row, Second Edition

NCJ Number

208864

Date Published

1991

Extremists or Believers? Religious Salience, Literalness, Attribution Styles and Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty Among Students: An Empirical Examination of Main and Moderating Effects

NCJ Number

208308

Journal

Journal of Crime & Justice

Date Published

2004

Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Review of the Research Evidence

NCJ Number

208252

Date Published

October 2004

Adult Corrections in the United States of America (From Adult Corrections: International Systems and Perspectives, P 341-369, 2004, John A. Winterdyk, ed. -- See NCJ-208147)

NCJ Number

208158

Date Published

2004

Capital Punishment 2003

NCJ Number

206627

Date Published

November 2004

Agencies

BJS

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Ideology, Social Threat, and the Death Sentence: Capital Sentences Across Time and Space

NCJ Number

207744

Journal

Social Forces

Date Published

September 2004

Interactive Effects of Victim Race and Gender on Death Sentence Disparity Findings

NCJ Number

207397

Journal

Homicide Studies

Date Published

November 2004

Confidence in the Death Penalty and Support for Its Use: Exploring the Value-Expressive Dimension of Death Penalty Attitudes

NCJ Number

207222

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

September 2004

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Juvenile Death Penalty--Evolving Standards of Decency

NCJ Number

206993

Date Published

January 2004

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Juvenile Death Penalty: Adolescence, Brain Development and Legal Culpability

NCJ Number

206992

Date Published

January 2004

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