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Mike Radelet and Traci Lacock have just published, "Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates?: The Views of Leading Criminologists," in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.  You can read the article here, in Adobe .pdf format, thanks to the Death Penalty Information Center. Here's the text of a news release announcing the article: Eighty-eight percent of the country?s top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published today in Northwestern University School of Law?s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology authored by Professor Michael Radelet, Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Traci Lacock, an attorney and Sociology graduate student in Boulder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).