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New Study Reveals Lack of Support for Deterrence Effect of the Death Penalty

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Yesterday a new study entitled, ?Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists,? was published in Northwestern University School of Law?s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The study is 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. The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) has a copy of the study on its web site.The study?s findings include the following:Eighty-eight percent of the country?s top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicideEighty-seven percent of the expert criminologists believe that abolition of the death penalty would not have any significant effect on murder rates...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).