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Self‐Execution,Capital Punishment,and the Economics of Murder: Analysis of U.K.Statistics Suggests that Suicide by Murder Suspects is Not Influenced by the Probability of Execution
Author(s) -
Cameron Samuel
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/1536-7150.00127
Subject(s) - capital punishment , punishment (psychology) , state (computer science) , criminology , capital (architecture) , psychology , suicide prevention , actuarial science , poison control , demography , economics , medical emergency , social psychology , history , sociology , medicine , computer science , ancient history , algorithm
During the period when capital punishment was regularly used in England and Wales, the risk of self‐execution from suicide, when suspected of murder, greatly dominated the risk of death at the hands of the state. Over the period 1900–1949, even with four years’ data missing, there were 1,540 suicides by those suspected of murder. Using econometric analysis it is found that there is no significant relationship between self‐execution and state execution.