Paul Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 114601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9022-1816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Challenges to the Contemporary Death Penalty in the United States
This review focuses on empirical research about contemporary challenges to the death penalty in the United States. Challenges are factors that obstruct capital punishment, including legal or political restrictions; elimination at the federal or state level; or the hindrance of the process at its operational stages of charging, adjudicating, appeals, clemency, or executions. By the best-known measures, the death penalty has been in decline in the …
When the Islamic State Kills: Ironies of American and Isis Executions
Paul M Renfro, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
Criminal justice in the middlebrow imagination: The punitive dimensions of Making a Murderer
Popular documentary representations of crime and punishment have traditionally tended to fall into two camps: programs that are critical of law enforcement agencies and those that are sympathetic to them. In this article, we show how programs that present themselves as critical of legal authorities can nonetheless reinforce the “law and order punitivism” that underlay the ratcheting up of harsh punishment in the late 20th century. In a case study…
Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement
Exonerated delineates the origin story of the “innocence movement,” a highly publicized pivot in legal circles in the late twentieth century toward the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. Robert J. Norris focuses mostly on the key players involved in the early days of using forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to exonerate innocents. The protagonists are figures such as Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, founders of the Innocence Project, an or…
Localism and Capital Judicial Override in Jefferson County, Alabama
This article is an analysis of capital judicial override in Alabama through localist theories of capital punishment, with special focus on Liebman and Clarke's arguments about parochialism and libertarianism. We suggest that localism is related to high rates of death sentencing in one county even when the sentencing agent is a judge, not a jury. We begin with a review of Liebman and Clarke's analysis, then proceed with a description of the law on…
The Seductions of Crimesploitation: The Apprehension of Sex Offenders on Primetime Television
Reality television in the United States has often been understood to reinforce the punitive and neoliberal turns American political culture took in the late twentieth century. But in this article, we examine how it can work to unsettle as well as naturalize punitive and neoliberal ideologies. We do so via a case study of To Catch a Predator, a reality-based television program documenting the detection, legal apprehension, and extralegal punishmen…
Forgetting the future: Cause lawyering and the work of California capital trial defenders
This article aims to push the boundaries of definitions of capital cause lawyering to include a more potentially radical ‘cause’ that takes on one key ideological underpinning of state killing: individualism. This article studies whether and how capital trial lawyers take up a ‘radical’ cause by challenging individualism. To the extent that they oppose state killing and illuminate social inequality, the defenders studied in this project engage in…
The Ironies of Helping: Social Interventions and Executable Subjects
Law and society scholars have theorized about the link between capital punishment and the hegemony of individualism, but few offer empirical investigations to illustrate how individualism makes capital punishment possible (and vice versa) in the contemporary United States. In order to fill this gap, we analyze the legal and human service records that were compiled in the construction of one executable subject, Daniel Farnsworth. Using a critical …
American Exceptionalism and Racialized Inequality in American Capital Punishment
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 31
The Sukumbasi movement in Nepal: The fire from below
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNanda R. ShresthaPaul F. Kaplan is Visiting Professor and Rural Development Specialist associated with the MUCIA (Mid-West Universities Consortium for International Activities) Project at the Institute of Agricultural and Animal Sciences in Rampur, Chit wan, Nepal
The Individual Modernity of Filipino Small-Scale Industrial Workers
Achievement Orientation of Small Industrial Entrepreneurs in the Philippines
Social scientific research continues to attempt to distill the social prerequisites of entrepreneurship. This research on small-scale industrial entrepreneurs in a Philippine marketing center and its hinterland towns and villages attempts to contribute to this line of research.Through hypothesis testing and path analysis an attempt is made to establish which among a group of independent variables are important for determining achievement orientat…
The Ironies of Helping: Social Interventions and Executable Subjects
Law and society scholars have theorized about the link between capital punishment and the hegemony of individualism, but few offer empirical investigations to illustrate how individualism makes capital punishment possible (and vice versa) in the contemporary United States. In order to fill this gap, we analyze the legal and human service records that were compiled in the construction of one executable subject, Daniel Farnsworth. Using a critical …
American Exceptionalism and Racialized Inequality in American Capital Punishment
The Sukumbasi movement in Nepal: The fire from below
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNanda R. ShresthaPaul F. Kaplan is Visiting Professor and Rural Development Specialist associated with the MUCIA (Mid-West Universities Consortium for International Activities) Project at the Institute of Agricultural and Animal Sciences in Rampur, Chit wan, Nepal
Criminal justice in the middlebrow imagination: The punitive dimensions of Making a Murderer
Popular documentary representations of crime and punishment have traditionally tended to fall into two camps: programs that are critical of law enforcement agencies and those that are sympathetic to them. In this article, we show how programs that present themselves as critical of legal authorities can nonetheless reinforce the “law and order punitivism” that underlay the ratcheting up of harsh punishment in the late 20th century. In a case study…
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 31
Achievement Orientation of Small Industrial Entrepreneurs in the Philippines
Social scientific research continues to attempt to distill the social prerequisites of entrepreneurship. This research on small-scale industrial entrepreneurs in a Philippine marketing center and its hinterland towns and villages attempts to contribute to this line of research.Through hypothesis testing and path analysis an attempt is made to establish which among a group of independent variables are important for determining achievement orientat…
The Individual Modernity of Filipino Small-Scale Industrial Workers
The Sukumbasi movement in Nepal: The fire from below
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNanda R. ShresthaPaul F. Kaplan is Visiting Professor and Rural Development Specialist associated with the MUCIA (Mid-West Universities Consortium for International Activities) Project at the Institute of Agricultural and Animal Sciences in Rampur, Chit wan, Nepal
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 31
American Exceptionalism and Racialized Inequality in American Capital Punishment
The Ironies of Helping: Social Interventions and Executable Subjects
Law and society scholars have theorized about the link between capital punishment and the hegemony of individualism, but few offer empirical investigations to illustrate how individualism makes capital punishment possible (and vice versa) in the contemporary United States. In order to fill this gap, we analyze the legal and human service records that were compiled in the construction of one executable subject, Daniel Farnsworth. Using a critical …
Forgetting the future: Cause lawyering and the work of California capital trial defenders
This article aims to push the boundaries of definitions of capital cause lawyering to include a more potentially radical ‘cause’ that takes on one key ideological underpinning of state killing: individualism. This article studies whether and how capital trial lawyers take up a ‘radical’ cause by challenging individualism. To the extent that they oppose state killing and illuminate social inequality, the defenders studied in this project engage in…
The Seductions of Crimesploitation: The Apprehension of Sex Offenders on Primetime Television
Reality television in the United States has often been understood to reinforce the punitive and neoliberal turns American political culture took in the late twentieth century. But in this article, we examine how it can work to unsettle as well as naturalize punitive and neoliberal ideologies. We do so via a case study of To Catch a Predator, a reality-based television program documenting the detection, legal apprehension, and extralegal punishmen…
Localism and Capital Judicial Override in Jefferson County, Alabama
This article is an analysis of capital judicial override in Alabama through localist theories of capital punishment, with special focus on Liebman and Clarke's arguments about parochialism and libertarianism. We suggest that localism is related to high rates of death sentencing in one county even when the sentencing agent is a judge, not a jury. We begin with a review of Liebman and Clarke's analysis, then proceed with a description of the law on…
Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement
Exonerated delineates the origin story of the “innocence movement,” a highly publicized pivot in legal circles in the late twentieth century toward the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. Robert J. Norris focuses mostly on the key players involved in the early days of using forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to exonerate innocents. The protagonists are figures such as Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, founders of the Innocence Project, an or…
Criminal justice in the middlebrow imagination: The punitive dimensions of Making a Murderer
Popular documentary representations of crime and punishment have traditionally tended to fall into two camps: programs that are critical of law enforcement agencies and those that are sympathetic to them. In this article, we show how programs that present themselves as critical of legal authorities can nonetheless reinforce the “law and order punitivism” that underlay the ratcheting up of harsh punishment in the late 20th century. In a case study…
Paul M Renfro, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
When the Islamic State Kills: Ironies of American and Isis Executions
Challenges to the Contemporary Death Penalty in the United States
This review focuses on empirical research about contemporary challenges to the death penalty in the United States. Challenges are factors that obstruct capital punishment, including legal or political restrictions; elimination at the federal or state level; or the hindrance of the process at its operational stages of charging, adjudicating, appeals, clemency, or executions. By the best-known measures, the death penalty has been in decline in the …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Punishment (psychology (5 works) · History (4 works)