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Derek Bentley was a young man with severe learning difficulties. At 19, he had the mental age of a ten-year-old child. Bentley was easily influenced by others. In 1952, he and his friend, Chris Craig, were caught on a rooftop burgling a warehouse.
Oct 26, 2013 · Match-fixing is an interdisciplinary issue covering international, criminal and disciplinary law and even lawfulness (tactical elements of sports). One of the key difficulties is the broadness of the concept of match-fixing. The wide definition actually fits all branches of the aforesaid laws.
- Salomeja Zaksaite
- salomeja@teise.org
- 2013
Nov 21, 2013 · Abstract. The relationship between capital jury instructions and imposition of the death penalty in the United States is analyzed through 36 semi-structured interviews collected as part of the archives of the national Capital Jury Project (CJP) at the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York in Albany.
- John Robert Barner
- 2014
- Data
- Variables
- Analytical Strategy
- Results
- Discussion
- Limitations
Data for this project came from a combination of public sources. Offender data was obtained from the Texas Judicial Branch database (2019), the Texas Prison Inmates database (“The Texas Tribune”, ), and The Faces of Death Row database . District Attorney characteristics came from the Texas State Directory (“District Attorneys by County”, ). Informa...
The dependent or outcome variable in the current research is “death sought”. This variable is coded dichotomously as 1 = death penalty sought, 0 = death penalty not sought. In accordance with the research questions, independent variables in the current analysis were selected to examine the effects of the following on the likelihood that a district ...
The current research will examine a specific prosecutorial decision in 436 trials, with 436 distinct defendant, victim, and offense characteristics, that took place in only 49 counties. This means that several counties, and their corresponding district attorneys, tried more than one of the cases being examined here. Because county variables (includ...
Table 2 illustrates the results of the multivariate models for predictors of whether the death penalty was sought. The first model in this table includes taxable value as the measure of county financial condition. Here we can see that the model is statistically (p= .000) and substantively significant. In fact, the model explains 33% of the variance...
The debate about the death penalty as a deterrence for crime will continue particularly in states with high levels of death penalty cases. The theory of deterrence is ultimately carried out through public polices and at a more basic level, the decision to seek the death penalty at the case level. This study does not directly test the theory of dete...
While this study does have some interesting findings regarding the application of the death penalty in Texas, it is important to also note some limitations. First, it is reasonable to believe that county financial variables might have a disproportionate effect on the decisions of prosecutors in small counties with relatively little revenue. While t...
- Wendi Pollock, Andrew F. Johnson
- 2021
Mar 15, 2018 · The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it critically reviews how match-fixing is typified as policy problem. Second, it advances an analysis of the legal framework and regulatory system...
A Case Study: The Oklahoma City Bombing Extended empirical assessments of the relationship between capital punishment and closure can allow researchers to examine how particular murder victims’ family members experienced the relationship between capital punishment and closure.
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May 6, 2019 · Capital punishment and death row inmates: A research roundup. Our newest research roundup examines capital punishment from multiple angles, including prisoner experiences, factors that affect sentencing and how effectively the death penalty deters crime.
