Death by Design Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System

Name: Death by Design Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
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ISBN: 9780195182408

ISBN-10: 0195182405

ISBN-13: 9780195182408

Edition: 2005

Authors: Craig Haney

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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 distance and disengage us from the true nature of the task. Relying heavily on his own researchand 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…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Series Foreword



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 "Empathic Divide"



No Longer Tinkering With the Machinery of Death: Proposals for Systemic Reform


Concluding Thoughts: Death Is Different


Notes


Index