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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Federal Capital Offenses
Author: Index to the Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons: 1800-1845
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309254167
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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The Pamphleteer
Author: Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Nameless Offences
Author: H. G. CocksPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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What did the Victorians know about desire between men? Was it really 'the love that dare not speak its name'? Nameless Offences argues that even before Oscar Wilde and the rise of sexual science there was an open, public and concerted discussion of same-sex desire that went to the heart of Victorian notions of masculinity, civil society, class and identity. How did homosexuality come to be known as a 'secret vice', consigned to a secret place - the closet - when contemporaries regularly described its existence as widespread, threatening and even notorious? Nameless Offences asks where the closet came from and how the English learned to describe that which was 'nameless' and indescribable in this way. This groundbreaking book offers the definitive portrait of male homosexuality in the nineteenth century and includes many perceptive insights into what it reveals about the interaction between public and private morality which lay at the heart of Victorian England. 'Nameless Offences is a cogently argued and well-written book which contributes importantly to our understanding of the history of the legal regulation of sexual behavior between men in the 19th century...I cannot do justice...to the richness of his historical narrative...[he] has found gems of narrative detail...and woven them into a persuasive analysis.' - Morris B. Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York
Catalogue of Parliamentary Reports, and a Breviate of their Contents: Arranged under Heads according to the Subjects, 1696 - 1804
Author: General Index to the Reports of Select Committees
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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