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Deterrence and the death penalty: Why the statistics should be ignored
Author(s) -
Nagin Daniel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00733.x
Subject(s) - headline , deterrence (psychology) , criminology , law , statistics , political science , sociology , mathematics , business , advertising
Is the death penalty a deterrent? Does it dissuade potential murders from killing? Many studies say it does, many studies say it does not; but “all of the research about deterrence and the death penalty done in the past generation … should be ignored” said a recent headline summarising a report from the National Research Council. Daniel Nagin co‐edited the report. He explains why the statistics are no guide.