Cross-National Variability in Capital Punishment: Exploring the Sociopolitical Sources of Its Differential Legal Status

International Criminal Justice Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-130

  Miethe, Terance D ^a   Lu, Hong ^a   Deibert, Gini R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capital punishment; cross national trends; sociopolitical predictors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993783642     PISSN: 10575677     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1057567705283954     Document Type: Article

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