Self-execution, capital punishment, and the economics of murder: Analysis of U.K. Statistics suggests that suicide by murder suspects is not influenced by the probability of execution

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 880-890

  Cameron, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HOMICIDE; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CENSUSES; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMICIDE; JURISPRUDENCE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUICIDE;

EID: 0041075406     PISSN: 00029246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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