The Geography of Execution: The Capital Punishment Quagmire in America
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The perennially controversial issue of capital punishment has generated especially passionate debate in recent years. In this book, two noted experts on crime provide a geo-historical perspective on capital punishment, showing vividly the incoherencies and contradictions in policies and practices across the country. Going back to the earliest U.S. executions, the authors challenge the belief that capital punishment serves as a deterrent. Using state-of-the-art methods drawn from geographic information systems (GIS), they illustrate the culture of capital punishment and its impact on selected groups, mapping the execution of women, for example, and the origin and diffusion of electrocution, the gas chamber, and lethal injection. This book will be indispensable to anyone--scholar, policy maker, or lay person--who must be informed on the issue of capital punishment.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0847681572
ISBN13:9780847681570
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.7" x 8.7"
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