Marc Riedel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5511071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Riedel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Riedel |
| SIGNATURE | RIEDEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southeastern Louisiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1939-2254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Homicide–Suicides in the United States
Homicide–suicides are phenomena where the perpetrator kills one or more victims and subsequently kills himself/herself. The typical classification includes intimate partner homicide–suicides, familial, and extrafamilial homicide–suicides. This review examines research beginning with a 1992 seminal article by Peter Marzuk, Kenneth Tardiff, and Charles Hirsch in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which they suggested that homicide–s…
Homicide Arrest Clearances
This is a review of the research literature on homicide arrest clearances or homicides for which no offender is arrested. The article describes the decline in the percent of homicides resulting in arrests and charges from over 90 pecent in 1960 to 61 percent in 2006. Research is reviewed on the reasons for the lack of public attention and concern and the low homicide clearance rates in the USA in comparison with other countries. Research on the e…
Research Strategies for Secondary Data
Secondary Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice Sources of Secondary Data Doing Research with Secondary Data Accessing and Using Official Records Methodological Issues Legal Dimensions of Secondary Data The Future of Secondary Data
Stranger Violence
Murdered children
The Death Penalty and Discretion
Whether the deatn penalty should remain as a penalty available in American criminal law continues to be a subject of controversy among social scientists, lawyers, the judiciary and the public. While the traditional areas of debate over whether the death penalty is a deterrent and whether it is imposed ina discriminatory manner continue to be important issues, the recent Supreme Court decision (Furman v Georgia, 1972) and subsequent legislation ha…
Anthologies and Readers on Deviance
Crime and Delinquency
Death penalty discriminators
Rape, race, and the death penalty in Georgia
Following the 1972 Supreme Court decision on capital punishment, the Georgia legislature enacted a death penalty statute that attempts to avoid constitutional objections by establishing discretionary death sentencing for 361 rape cases in Georgia, comparing legal and nonlegal variables. Results indicate that blacks convicted of raping whites were disproportionately sentenced to death
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
The record of executions in the United States has long shown that black defendants are disproportionately subjected to this sanction. But racial differentials in the use of the death penalty may not alone reveal the existence of racial discrimination. The Supreme Court in the Furman decision ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional because it is a "cruel and unusual" punishment. Some allusions to racial discrimination appeared in the opin…
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
The record of executions in the United States has long shown that black defendants are disproportionately subjected to this sanction. But racial differentials in the use of the death penalty may not alone reveal the existence of racial discrimination. The Supreme Court in the Furman decision ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional because it is a "cruel and unusual" punishment. Some allusions to racial discrimination appeared in the opin…
Murdered children
Anthologies and Readers on Deviance
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
The record of executions in the United States has long shown that black defendants are disproportionately subjected to this sanction. But racial differentials in the use of the death penalty may not alone reveal the existence of racial discrimination. The Supreme Court in the Furman decision ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional because it is a "cruel and unusual" punishment. Some allusions to racial discrimination appeared in the opin…
Rape, race, and the death penalty in Georgia
Following the 1972 Supreme Court decision on capital punishment, the Georgia legislature enacted a death penalty statute that attempts to avoid constitutional objections by establishing discretionary death sentencing for 361 rape cases in Georgia, comparing legal and nonlegal variables. Results indicate that blacks convicted of raping whites were disproportionately sentenced to death
The Death Penalty and Discretion
Whether the deatn penalty should remain as a penalty available in American criminal law continues to be a subject of controversy among social scientists, lawyers, the judiciary and the public. While the traditional areas of debate over whether the death penalty is a deterrent and whether it is imposed ina discriminatory manner continue to be important issues, the recent Supreme Court decision (Furman v Georgia, 1972) and subsequent legislation ha…
Anthologies and Readers on Deviance
Crime and Delinquency
Death penalty discriminators
Murdered children
Stranger Violence
Research Strategies for Secondary Data
Secondary Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice Sources of Secondary Data Doing Research with Secondary Data Accessing and Using Official Records Methodological Issues Legal Dimensions of Secondary Data The Future of Secondary Data
Homicide Arrest Clearances
This is a review of the research literature on homicide arrest clearances or homicides for which no offender is arrested. The article describes the decline in the percent of homicides resulting in arrests and charges from over 90 pecent in 1960 to 61 percent in 2006. Research is reviewed on the reasons for the lack of public attention and concern and the low homicide clearance rates in the USA in comparison with other countries. Research on the e…
Homicide–Suicides in the United States
Homicide–suicides are phenomena where the perpetrator kills one or more victims and subsequently kills himself/herself. The typical classification includes intimate partner homicide–suicides, familial, and extrafamilial homicide–suicides. This review examines research beginning with a 1992 seminal article by Peter Marzuk, Kenneth Tardiff, and Charles Hirsch in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which they suggested that homicide–s…
Criminology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Medical emergency (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Suicide prevention (4 works)