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M. Dwayne Smith
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Homicide Studies. 26:3-10
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Youth & Society. :0044118X2311658
In the 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision, the Supreme Court determined that capital punishment, the death penalty, was not appropriate for offenders under the age of 18. The Court accepted the argument that juveniles are less blameworthy than adult offe
Autor:
M. Dwayne Smith
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Homicide Studies. 27:207-207
Cop killers and the death penalty: an exploratory mixed methods analysis, North Carolina (1977–2009)
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Journal of Crime and Justice. 43:65-77
Although all jurisdictions with capital punishment currently have at least one statutory aggravating factor for causing the death of a law-enforcement officer, little is currently known abo...
Autor:
Sondra J. Fogel, Lauren N. Miley, M. Dwayne Smith, Kathleen M. Heide, Beth J. Bejerregaard, John K. Cochran, Ellie Heiss‐Moses
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Behavioral sciencesthe lawREFERENCES. 38(4)
Mentally ill and emotionally disturbed offenders comprise a significant component of those whose criminal conduct has swept them into the criminal justice system, including a subset who are tried and convicted of capital murder. The present study emp
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Criminal Justice Studies. 31:62-79
Age is prominent among theories of criminology and victimology. It is less conspicuous in punishment theory, despite its emphasis in retributive theory and lawmaking. The present study evaluated co...
Autor:
Sondra J. Fogel, M. Dwayne Smith, Beth Bjerregaard, Christopher J. Marier, John K. Cochran, Wesley G. Jennings
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Race and Justice. 9:383-406
Historical analyses of southern statutes (i.e., Slave Codes, Black Codes, “Jim Crow,” etc.) and their enforcement reveals evidence of an enduring cultural legacy prescribing lethal vengeance to Blacks who violate White sensibilities, especially f
Autor:
Beth Bjerregaard, Caitlyn N. Meade, Sondra J. Fogel, Wesley G. Jennings, M. Dwayne Smith, John K. Cochran
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Women & Criminal Justice. 27:139-150
It was not too many decades ago that rape was a crime for which the death penalty was a permissible punishment in the United States, particularly in death penalty states in the South. Relatedly, historical and contemporary death penalty research almo
Autor:
Wesley G. Jennings, Beth Bjerregaard, Sondra J. Fogel, John K. Cochran, M. Dwayne Smith, Wyatt Brown, Jocelyn Camacho
Publikováno v:
Justice Quarterly. 34:297-323
This study examines death/life capital sentences in one southern state, North Carolina, during the period 1990 to 2010 to determine the extent to which they are comparatively excessive/lenient. The study employs data derived from a variety of officia
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Social Science Research. 52:47-58
A small body of prior research has examined the impact of victim sex on jury death penalty decision-making and the majority of this research has demonstrated some evidence of a "female victim effect" such that cases involving a female victim are more