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Death by Design: Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
Haney, Craig PhD
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Book Information
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
0-19-518240-5 (0195182405)
ISBN-13:
978-0-19-518240-8 (9780195182408)
Binding:
Hardcover
Copyright:
2005
Publish Date:
07/05
Weight:
1.36 Lbs.
Pages:
352
Carton Quantity:
15
Subject Class:
PSY (Psychiatry and Psychology)
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Class Specifications
ISSN Series:
American Psychology-Law Society Series
Discipline:
Social Science
Subject Definition:
Capital Punishment-U.S.; Ethics
NLM Class:
HV 8699
LC Class:
HV8699
Abstract:
In this book, 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 distance and disengage 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 engage in behavior from which many of them otherwise would refrain. However, by facilitating death sentencing in these ways, this inter-related set of social psychological forces also undermines the reliability and authenticity of the process, and compromises the fairness of its outcomes. Because these social psychological forces are systemic in nature - built into the very system of death sentencing itself - Haney concludes by suggesting a number of inter-locking reforms, derived directly from empirical research on capital punishment, that are needed to increase the fairness and reliability of the process.
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