| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-10-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 206 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Note Mark Costanzo's intelligent, provocative, and historically grounded study of the death penalty in America takes an unblinking look at how the system works--not just how it's supposed to work. Weighing the social costs and benefits and debunking the easy myths, Costanzo builds an important new model for understanding the politics behind the practice of capital punishment.
There are more prisoners on death row than ever in U.S. history. Social psychologist Mark Costanzo's intelligent, provocative, and historically grounded study of the death penalty in America takes an unblinking look at how the system really works--not just how it's supposed to work. Weighing the costs and benefits, Costanzo builds an important new model for understanding the politics behind the practice of capital punishment.
Industry Reviews "A polemic maintaining that the death penalty is cruel and unfair, that it doesn't prevent crime, and that it can be replaced by a sentence of life without parole." Jewett
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