Do executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists

Posted on Sep 01, 2009 by TarrahNCCM

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Eighty-eight percent of the country's top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published today in Northwestern University School of Law's Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology authored by Professor Michael Radelet, Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Traci
Lacock, an attorney and Sociology graduate student in Boulder.

URL: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/DeterrenceStudy2009.pdf

Ref: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/DeterrenceStudy2009.pdf

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