The death penalty

influences and outcomes

Unsurprisingly, much of the social science research agenda on the death penalty is centered in the United States, a country that permits federal government and state governments to use death as a punishment for homicide. Scholars designed the agenda to speak on issues thought to ...

Quantitative methods in criminology

This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection, and the development of ...

Offender rehabilitation

effective correctional intervention

Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction 1 What Works? - Questions and Answers about Prison Reform by Robert Martinson 2 Meta-analysis and the Rehabilitation of Punishment by Charles H. Logan and Gerald G. Gaes 3 Treatment Destruction Techniques by Michael R. Gottfredson 4 New Findings ...