Police Killings and Capital Punishment
The Post‐furman Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9681367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William C Bailey (Cleveland State University, corresponding author), Ruth D Peterson (The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 1987-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1987.tb00786.x |
| OpenAlex | W2136165534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
In view of (1) escalating national attention and political and judicial activity centering on capital punishment during recent years and (2) concomitant changes in police killing rates, this paper investigates the impact of the death penalty on rates of lethal assaults against the police for the post‐ Furman period, 1973–1984. In keeping with recent investigations of deterrence and general homicides, multiple regression is used as a means of controlling for the influence of possible confounding variables in examining the capital punishment/police killings relationship. Consistent with previous investigations, the present analysis provides no indication that our national return to capital punishment since Furman has had a systematic impact on police homicides. Law enforcement officers are not afforded an added measure of protection in death penalty compared to abolitionist states, nor is there anything but a chance association between the rate of police killings and the level of use of the death sentence for convicted murderers
Capital (architecture · Capital punishment · Criminology · Demographic economics · Deterrence (psychology · Economics · Enforcement · Homicide · Law enforcement · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Crime, punishment, and deterrence
Sanctions and social deviance
Voluntary Control of Smooth Eye Movements and their Velocity
An Analysis of Police Killed by Criminal Action
The Death Penalty
Legal Homicide
The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty
Capital Punishment and Deterrence
Testing the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment and Lethal Assaults Against Police
Deterrence and the Celerity of the Death Penalty
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |