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Police Killings And Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period, William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson
Police Killings And Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period, William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
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 …