Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-03T02:39:35.981Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The State as Killer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1983 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Thorstein Sellin, ed., Capital Punishment (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).Google Scholar

2 Ehrlich, Isaac, The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment—A Question of Life and Death, 65 Am. Econ. Rev. 397 (1975). For a listing of some of Ehrlich's numerous articles, see Ehrlich, Isaac, Positive Methodology in Deterrence Research, 22 Brit. J. Criminology 124, 138 (1982).Google Scholar

3 See Lawrence R. Klein, Brian Forst, & Victor Filatov, The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: An Assessment of the Estimates, in National Research Council, Deterrence and Incapacitation: Estimating the Effects of Criminal Sanctions on Crime Rates (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1978). For an even more rigorous review of Ehrlich's methods and conclusions, see Barnett, Arnold, The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Test of Some Recent Studies, 29 Operations Research 346 (1981).Google Scholar

4 The most complete catalog of Ehrlich's numerous articles is in the references listed in his article in the Brit. J. of Criminology, supra note 2.Google Scholar

5 Hugo Adam Bedau, ed., The Death Penalty in America (3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

6 Charles L. Black, Jr., Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake (2d ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981).Google Scholar

7 Ernest van den Haag, Punishing Criminals: Concerning a Very Old and Painful Question (New York: Basic Books, 1975).Google Scholar

8 Raoul Berger, Death Penalties: The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

9 332 U.S. 46, 48 (1947).Google Scholar

10 391 U.S. 145 (1968).Google Scholar

11 217 U.S. 349 373 (1910).Google Scholar

12 Sarah T. Dike, Capital Punishment in the United States: A Consideration of the Evidence (Hacken-sack, N.J.: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1982).Google Scholar

13 Robert Johnson, Condemned to Die: Life Under Sentence of Death (New York & Oxford: Elsevier, 1981).Google Scholar

14 Louis B. Cei, The Bookshelf, Corrections Today, vol. 45, no. 2, at 64, 86.Google Scholar