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Philip Schwadel and Amy L Anderson
Sociology of Religion, Volume 86, Issue 1, Spring 2025, Pages 104–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srae030
Published: 26 October 2024
... is associated with reduced support for capital punishment among white Americans. Conservative religion, however, is associated with moral foundations and schemas that lead to greater support for capital punishment, which we expect moderate the association between education and views of capital punishment. Using...
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Lizzie Seal and Alexa Neale
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 417–433, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad035
Published: 10 August 2023
... to state their views on a public stage. The final act of these social dramas was the death penalty, a measure intended to restore order, but which also posed the risk of turning them into martyrs. Assassination social drama death penalty capital punishment Leverhulme Trust 10.13039/501100000275 RPG...
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Lewis Ross
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 1077–1099, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad001
Published: 27 January 2023
... with a plausible theory concerning the epistemology of legal judgments and the role they play in society. philosophy of law legal proof punishment criminal justice beyond reasonable doubt blame retributivism capital punishment In everyday life, we seek more confidence for some decisions than others...
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Sylwia J Piatkowska and others
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 63, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 784–802, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac062
Published: 26 July 2022
..., perceived immigrant threat, and support for capital punishment across European countries. We merged data from the 2017 European Values Study with the Manifesto Project Dataset, a comparative dataset on statements by political parties. The results reveal positive effects of the perceived immigrant threat...
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Sarah K Sawicki
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2022, Pages 18–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhab040
Published: 08 February 2022
.../pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The practice of health-care professional involvement in capital punishment has come under scrutiny since the implementation of lethal injection as a method of execution, raising questions of the goals of medicine...
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Lizzie Seal and Alexa Neale
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 60, Issue 4, July 2020, Pages 811–829, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz085
Published: 13 January 2020
... how the criminal justice system governed through emotion. murder capital punishment race gender historical criminology In this article, we examine ten capital cases of men of colour sentenced to death in England and Wales for intimate murder during 1900–39, all of which related to men in intimate...
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David H. Kaye
Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2017, Pages 7–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgw012
Published: 08 February 2017
....’ —James R. Flynn, Intelligence and Human Progress 3 (2013) In Atkins v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment precludes capital punishment for intellectually disabled offenders...
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Nita A. Farahany
Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2015, Pages 485–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv059
Published: 14 January 2016
... behavioral genetics capital punishment IAC Legal scholars, scientists, and commentators lament the onslaught of behavioral genetics and neuroscience in the criminal courtroom. Fueled largely by anecdotal evidence about the use of bioscience in criminal cases, or media reports of high-profile cases...
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Adam Kadlac
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2014, Pages 505–522, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhu029
Published: 03 September 2014
... Dworkin makes it explicit that the issue he does “not want to address is that of the moral legitimacy of capital punishment itself” and instead focuses solely on the role of physicians in the process ( Dworkin, 2002 , 81). Similarly, Peter Murphy offers two parallel arguments against physician...
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Michelle A. Petrie and James E. Coverdill
Social Problems, Volume 57, Issue 4, 1 November 2010, Pages 630–652, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2010.57.4.630
Published: 30 July 2014
... or victims—have lower hazards of execution than cases in which both offenders and victims are white. Victim and offender race and ethnicity have little to no independent effect upon the hazard of sentence relief. capital punishment executions sentence relief race Latinos Who Lives and Dies on Death Row...
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Lizzie Seal
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 5, September 2014, Pages 908–927, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu045
Published: 05 July 2014
...Lizzie Seal Capital punishment, as Sarat (1999) explains, has a cultural life. Punishment ‘lives in culture through its pedagogical effects’, including how to think about intention, responsibility and injury, and it also lives in culture as images and representations ( Sarat 1999 : 9). Although...
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Michelle Miao
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 53, Issue 3, May 2013, Pages 500–519, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azt004
Published: 01 March 2013
... and Jinks 2004 : 630–3; Patterson 2006 ). China’s rise to the status of a prominent member in international politics and the changing power dynamics between China and Europe in recent years made outright coercion less viable as a means of influencing capital punishment practices in China. Central...
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David F. Greenberg and Biko Agozino
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 113–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr072
Published: 21 September 2011
..., and speculations are offered as to the reasons for the recent large increase in homicide rates. death penalty capital punishment imprisonment homicide Trinidad and Tobago deterrence The effectiveness of capital punishment and imprisonment in reducing crime rates has been studied and debated for several...
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James D. Unnever and others
Sociology of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 3, FALL 2010, Pages 307–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srq046
Published: 27 May 2010
...James D. Unnever; John P. Bartkowski; Francis T. Cullen Early research on the consistent life ethic investigated whether opposition to abortion and capital punishment could be traced to students' conceptualizations of life ownership, that is, views that life belongs to God, the state, or the self...
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Robert E. Hanlon and others
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Volume 25, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acp099
Published: 01 February 2010
... functions, with over half of the sample (55%) demonstrating executive dysfunction. Homicide Forensic evaluation Neuropsychology Criminal behavior Violence Prisoners Capital punishment Murder Neuropsychologists are frequently asked to evaluate the neurocognitive and intellectual status of murder...
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Published: 03 July 2018
... psychoanalysis Reik Theodor Al Hallaj Benjamin Walter Bush George W Jesus Joan of Arc President figure of Socrates hospitality ipseity phantasm Benveniste Emile Genet Jean Nietzsche Friedrich autoimmunity Heraclitus Capital Punishment Death Penalty Deconstruction Immanuel Kant Jacques Derrida...
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Published: 03 July 2018
... in order to see how Montaigne’s Pyrrhonian-style skepticism offers a pre-Enlightenment model of opposition to capital punishment. Montaigne Michel de Erasmus Euripides Horace Lucretius Sophocles phantasm Camus Albert Beccaria Cesare Hugo Victor Kant Immanuel Frame Donald Pyrrhonism...
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Published: 03 July 2018
... lex talionis Dasein Heidegger Martin Bennington Geoffrey Naas Michael Benjamin Walter Hegel Georg Wilhem Friedrich Plato Lacan Jacques Levinas Emmanuel Evans E P Racine Jean Foucault Michel ipseity Nietzsche Friedrich Descartes René Animal Studies Capital Punishment Death Penalty...
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Published: 03 July 2018
... Potter Stewart Woodson v North Carolina autoimmunity Scalia Antonin Badinter Robert Capital Punishment Death Penalty Deconstruction Jacques Derrida Law Martin Heidegger Sovereignty The impossible task of this seminar is this: to break this alliance, this symmetry between abolitionism and anti...
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Published: 03 July 2018
... Brown Michael Cullors Patrisse Garner Eric Garza Alicia Martin Trayvon Rice Tamir Tometi Opal Abolitionism Capital Punishment Critical Race Theory Death Penalty Deconstruction Jacques Derrida Life without Parole Mass Incarceration In the introduction to The Prison and the Gallows...