Research question: Does capital punishment deter homicide crimes?
Working thesis statement: Capital punishment ends up consuming taxpayers’ money and does
not deter homicide crimes.
Detailed Outline:
I. Working T
...
Research question: Does capital punishment deter homicide crimes?
Working thesis statement: Capital punishment ends up consuming taxpayers’ money and does
not deter homicide crimes.
Detailed Outline:
I. Working Thesis in Introduction: Capital punishment ends up consuming taxpayers’
money and does not deter homicide crimes.
a. Introduce the concept of capital punishment and its cost implications.
b. Show how the efficacy of capital punishment in deterrence of homicide crimes.
Sources
1. Ehrlich, I. (2017). Economics of Criminal Law. The Oxford Handbook of Law
and Economics, 3, 295.
2. National Conference of State Legislatures. (2019). States and Capital Punishment.
Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/death-
penalty.aspx
II. Capital punishment in the United States
Sources
1. Nagin, D. S. (2018). Deterrent effects of the certainty and severity of
punishment. In Deterrence, Choice, and Crime, Volume 23 (pp. 157-185).
Routledge.
2. Lundberg, A. (2019). On the Public Finance of Capital Punishment. Available
at SSRN 3367170.
3. Bohm, R. M. (2016). Deathquest: An introduction to the theory and practice
of capital punishment in the United States. Taylor & Francis.
III. The Theory of Deterrence
Sources
1. Waldo, G. P., & Myers, W. (2019). Criminological research and the death
penalty: has research by criminologists impacted capital punishment
practices?. American journal of criminal justice, 44(4), 536-580.
2. Tomlinson, K. D. (2016). An examination of deterrence theory: Where do we
stand. Fed. Probation, 80, 33.
3. Chalfin, A., & McCrary, J. (2017). Criminal deterrence: A review of the
literature. Journal of Economic Literature, 55(1), 5-48.
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