capital punishment as social psychological system /
Craig Haney.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
1 online resource (xx, 329 pages)
American psychology-law society series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-322) and index.
Series Foreword; 1 Blinded by the Death Penalty: The Supreme Court and the Social Realities of Capital Punishment; 2 Frameworks of Misunderstanding: Capital Punishment and the American Media; 3 Constructing Capital Crimes and Defendants: Death Penalty Case-Specific Biases and Their Effects; 4 The Fragile Consensus: Public Opinion and Death Penalty Policy; 5 A Tribunal Organized to Convict and Execute? On the Nature of Jury Selection in Capital Cases; 6 Preparing for the Death Penalty in Advance of Trial: Process Effects in Death-Qualifying Capital Juries.
7 Structural Aggravation: Moral Disengagement in the Capital Trial Process8 Misguided Discretion: Instructional Incomprehension in the System of Death Sentencing; 9 Condemning the Other: Race, Mitigation, and the "Empathic Divide"; 10 No Longer Tinkering With the Machinery of Death: Proposals for Systemic Reform; Concluding Thoughts: Death Is Different; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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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 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.
Death by design.
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