| Series |
American Psychology-Law Society series
American Psychology-Law Society series. ^A601785
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| Contents |
Blinded by the death penalty : the Supreme Court and the social realities of capital punishment -- Frameworks of misunderstanding : capital punishment and the American media -- Constructing capital crimes and defendants : death penalty case-specific biases and their effects -- The fragile consensus : public opinion and death penalty policy -- A tribunal organized to convict and execute? : on the nature of jury selection in capital cases -- Preparing for the death penalty in advance of trial : process effects in death-qualifying capital juries -- Structural aggravation : moral disengagement in the capital trial process -- Misguided discretion : instructional incomprehension in the system of death sentencing -- Condemning the other : race, mitigation, and the "empathetic divide" -- No longer tinkering with the machinery of death : proposals for systemic reform -- Concluding thoughts : death is different. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-322) and index. |
| Other forms | View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web. |
| LCCN | 2004023583 |
| ISBN | 0195182405 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195182408 (acid-free paper) |
