Criminal Justice

For courses in Capital Punishment, The Death Penalty, Policy Analysis/Policy Evaluation/Public Policy and Social Problems.

Based on empirical evidence, Death Nation offers a fair and reasoned analysis of capital punishment as it is actually practiced in the United States. It includes a discussion of death penalty history, an analysis of the death penalty law and a discussion of various policy implications. Rather than present philosophical or moral arguments, it presents findings from a survey administered to dozens of capital punishment experts throughout the United States. Included in the book are fact check sections that analyze these expert opinions for accuracy based on available empirical evidence. 

For courses in Capital Punishment, The Death Penalty, Policy Analysis/Policy Evaluation/Public Policy and Social Problems.

Based on empirical evidence, Death Nation offers a fair and reasoned analysis of capital punishment as it is actually practiced in the United States. It includes a discussion of death penalty history, an analysis of the death penalty law and a discussion of various policy implications. Rather than present philosophical or moral arguments, it presents findings from a survey administered to dozens of capital punishment experts throughout the United States. Included in the book are fact check sections that analyze these expert opinions for accuracy based on available empirical evidence. 

Hallmark Features

Examines important questions such as:

• Do executions reduce murder?
• Is capital punishment biased against any race, gender, or class of people?
• Is the death penalty used against the innocent?
• Is the application of the death penalty plagued by significant problems?
• Why is the United States the only western industrialized nation to continue to carry out executions? 

Uses empirical evidence–rather than philosophical or moral arguments, to analyze the realities of the death penalty as it is actually practiced in the United States.

• Provides a scholarly analysis of the application of the death penalty in the United States based on empirical evidence and the most recent scholarship available.
• Focuses on how the death penalty is actually practiced in America and reveals some key empirical truths.  

Captures and presents the opinions of capital punishment experts–with regard to the effectiveness of the death penalty in America, as well as its alleged problems.

• Allows students to learn what active capital punishment scholars think about the realities of the death penalty in the United States.
• Presents the findings of a survey that was administered to various death penalty experts across the country. 

Includes fact check sections–to illustrate the most relevant and recent research findings with regard to capital punishment practice in the United States.

• Analyzes expert opinion for accuracy based on available empirical evidence.  

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE         CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FACTS AND HISTORY

CHAPTER TWO         DEATH PENALTY LAW

CHAPTER THREE      METHODOLOGY

CHAPTER FOUR       JUSTIFICATIONS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: IS THE DEATH PENALTY EFFECTIVE?

CHAPTER FIVE         ALLEGED PROBLEMS WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: IS THE APPLICATION OF DEATH PENALTY PLAGUED BY BIAS, ERROR AND OTHER PROBLEMS?

CHAPTER SIX           DEATH PENALTY OPINION AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

History of Criminal Justice  (Criminal Justice)
Issues in Corrections/Special Topics  (Criminal Justice)

Matthew Robinson is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Appalachian State University.  His main areas of interest include criminological theory, crime prevention, the death penalty, the war on drugs, and injustices of the criminal justice system.  He is author of Justice Blind? Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice (Prentice Hall, 2005) and Why Crime? An Integrated Systems Theory of Antisocial Behavior (Prentice Hall, 2004).  He is also Past President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association.

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive for Criminal Justice, Version 2.0
Allyn & Bacon
©2003 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0205380980 | ISBN-13: 9780205380985

Allyn & Bacon Introduction to Criminal Justice Study Site (Open access), 2/E
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205493424 | ISBN-13: 9780205493425
URL:  http://www.abintrocriminaljustice.com

Careers in Criminal Justice CD-ROM
Prentice Hall
©2006 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131195131 | ISBN-13: 9780131195134
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CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Longman
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205531709 | ISBN-13: 9780205531707

Crime Time Special Edition: Patrolling Terror, 7/E
Barber
©2008 | Prentice Hall | DVD | Instock
ISBN-10: 013615736X | ISBN-13: 9780136157366
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Criminal Justice Simulations, 10/E
Schmalleger
©2009 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0135137888 | ISBN-13: 9780135137888
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Criminal Justice Simulations Brief, CD-ROM
Schmalleger
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ISBN-10: 0132252228 | ISBN-13: 9780132252225
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Criminal Justice Systems Chart, 6/E
Prentice Hall
©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131701614 | ISBN-13: 9780131701618
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Criminal Justice in Illinois, 2004-2005 Update (Valuepack Item Only)
Houlihan, Combest & Foster
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205440398 | ISBN-13: 9780205440399

Criminal Justice in New York, 2004-2005 Update (Valuepack Item Only)
Jones-Brown
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205440444 | ISBN-13: 9780205440443

Criminal Justice in North Carolina (Valuepack Item Only)
Jackson
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0205440428 | ISBN-13: 9780205440429

Criminal Justice in Ohio, 2004-2005 Update (Valuepack Item Only)
Williams & King
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 020544041X | ISBN-13: 9780205440412

Criminal Justice in Pennsylvania, 2004-2005 Update (Valuepack item only), 2/E
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ISBN-10: 0205437133 | ISBN-13: 9780205437139

Criminal Justice in West Virginia, 2004-2005 Update (Valuepack item only)
Barkan
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205440436 | ISBN-13: 9780205440436

Criminal Justice, Evaluating Online Resources with Research Navigator, 2004
Payton
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131844601 | ISBN-13: 9780131844605

Ethics in Criminal Justice, A Scenario Based CD-ROM, 9/E
Prentice Hall
©2007 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 013204398X | ISBN-13: 9780132043984
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Online Resource Guide for Law Enforcement
Dees
©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130186856 | ISBN-13: 9780130186850
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TIME: Criminal Justice, Special Edition
Time Magazine & Inc.
©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131174576 | ISBN-13: 9780131174573

Themes of the Times for Criminal Justice (Valuepack Item Only), 2/E
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©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205509959 | ISBN-13: 9780205509959

Themes of the Times for Criminology (Valuepack item only), 2/E
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 020551183X | ISBN-13: 9780205511839

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