Death by design : capital punishment as social psychological system /

Death by design : capital punishment as social psychological system /

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Author / Creator:Haney, Craig.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 329 pages)
Language:English
Series:American psychology-law society series
American Psychology-Law Society series.
Subject:
Capital punishment -- United States.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States.
Capital punishment.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Discrimination in capital punishment.
United States.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140062
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ISBN:9780198040224
0198040229
1423735005
9781423735007
0195182405
9780195182408
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-322) and index.
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Summary:How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing itself, is maintained through a complex and elaborate social psychological system that distances and disengages us from the true nature of the task. Relying heavily on his own research and that of other social scientists, Haney suggests that these social psychological forces enable persons to eng.
Other form:Print version: Haney, Craig. Death by design. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0195182405

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