Death by design : capital punishment as social psychological system /
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 sentenci...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | American Psychology-Law Society series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198040224 0198040229 1423735005 9781423735007 0195182405 9780195182408 |
