- DETERRENCE AND THE DEATH PENALTY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF NEW EVIDENCE
All but one of the new studies lump all forms of murder together, claiming that all are equally deterrable But logic tells us that some types of murder may be poor candidates for deterrence, such as crimes of passion or jealousy Yet the one study that looked at specific categories found that “domestic” homicides are more deterrable than others,17 a claim that flies in the face of six
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