Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty
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ISBN: 0312179456 / Publisher: Worth Publishers, October 1997
A professor of social psychology explores the history of execution in America, weighing its social costs, discussing its potential benefits and problems, and building a new model for understanding the politics behind the death penalty.
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Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty by Mark Costanzo offers an examination of the death penalty in America with an uncompromising look at how the system works. Weighing the social costs and benefits to American society and debunking the easy myths, Costanzo builds an important new model for understanding the politics behind the practice of capital punishment. The text offers a thought-provoking, historically grounded study supported by decades of research on the death penalty in America.
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