The Death Penalty as a Social Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Meranze (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd005.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4238520514 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Considering the death penalty as a social problem is a recent historical development. Capital punishment was an important tool of early modern states; it was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that it came to be seen as a problematic institution. The result is a practice that is both widely established and systematically under attack
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Capital punishment · Criminology · Institution · Law and economics · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Social capital · Social institution · Social issues · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |