Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence

Informationen zum Autor Frank R. Baumgartner is Miller-LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. His previous publications include: Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas (2007), The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems (with Bryan D. Jones, 2005), Policy Dynamics (with Bryan D. Jones, 2002), and Agendas and Instability in American Politics (with Bryan D. Jones, 1993), winner of the 2001 Aaron Wildavsky Award, APSA Organized Section on Public Policy. He has been published widely in journals and serves on the editorial boards of American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, Policy Studies Journal, and Journal of Information Technology and Politics. Suzanna L. De Boef is Associate Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. Her research examines the dynamics of public opinion, elections, and public policy and the statistical methods used to analyze them. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Statistics in Medicine. Amber E. Boydstun is a graduate student in Political Science at Penn State University. Her research explores the influence of issue-definition on media agenda control. She has been published in Mass Communication and Society. Klappentext The possible end of capital punishment due to new discoveries of innocence. Zusammenfassung In theory! most Americans continue to support the death penalty. But since 1996! death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent. The discovery of innocence! and the acknowledgment of fallibility of our justice system! may spell the end of capital punishment in America. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Innocence and the death penalty debate; 2. The death penalty in America; 3. A chronology of innocence; 4. The shifting terms of debate; 5. Innocence, resonance, and old arguments made new again; 6. Public opinion; 7. The rise and fall of a public policy; 8. Conclusion....

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Frank R. Baumgartner, Frank R. Boef Baumgartner, Baumgartner Frank R., Suzanna L. de Boef, Amber E. Boydstun, Suzanna L. De Boef, Suzanna Linn
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521715249
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71524-9
• Pages: 310
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire culturelle; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit pénal, droit de procédure pénale, criminologie; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Penology and punishment, Human rights, civil rights, Penology & punishment