The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death / Isaac Ehrlich.

Author
Ehrlich, Isaac [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1973.
  • Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1973.
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1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

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Series
  • Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0018. [More in this series]
  • NBER working paper series no. w0018
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The debate over the legitimacy or propriety of the death penalty may be almost as old as the death penalty itself and, in the view of the increasing trend towards its complete abolition, perhaps as outdated. Not surprisingly, and as is generally recognized by contemporary writers on this topic, the philosophical and moral arguments for or against the death penalty have remained remarkably unchanged since the beginning of the debate. One outstanding issue has become, however, the subject of increased investigation, especially in recent years, due to its objective nature and the dominant role it has played in shaping the analytical and practical case against the death penalty. That issue is the deterrent effect of capital punishment, a reexamination of which, in both theory and practice, is the object of the paper.
Notes
November 1973.
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The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
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