Punishment

Web Resources

Capital punishment

• Adams, Randall Dale.  Radio Interview.  Adams was mistakenly charged with killing a Dallas policeman, and spent three years on death row.  His life was the subject of the movie The Thin Blue Line. [RealAudio]
  
  
• American Bar Association's statement on the death penalty in the United States.
   
• American Society of Criminology.  (Official association of professional criminologists).  Official Statement on the Death Penalty.  Recent paper on the death penalty, presented to their Policy Board.
  
  
• Bedau, Hugo. "The Case against the Death Penalty."   Bedau is one of the leading academic spokepeople against the death penalty.
   
• Human Rights Watch's perspectives of the Death Penalty in the US.
   
• Links on the death penalty (from the Clark Country Prosecuting Attorney).  Nice resource.
  
  
• Mill, John Stuart. "Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment."
   
• Penry v. Lynaugh. 492 U.S. 302 (1989).  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that it is not cruel and unusual to sentence a retarded person to death.
   
• University of Northern Illinois site.  Includes extensive information on state laws, innocent people executed, prosecutorial misconduct, etc.
  
  
• van der Haag, Ernest. "The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense."  (1996) Harvard Law Review Association.
  
  
  

Empirical evidence on various forms of punishment

• Barnett, Cynthia.  "The Measurement of White-Collar Crime Using Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Data."
   
• Bureau of Justice Statistics.  Governmental statistics on incarceration rates, capital punishment, crime rates, prosecution, etc.
  
  
• California Department of Corrections.  Compilation of statistics on capital punishment, country wide.
  
  
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.  The main government site concerned with juvenile justice.  Links to various resources.
   
• Legal Information Center.  Legal resources for Cornell Law School.
   
• Lead and crime?  Research that suggests that lead in the atmosphere may cause criminality.
   
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service.   Office of Justice Programs. U.S. Department of Justice. Information and statistics on crime, victimization, courses, etc.
   
• National Crime Victimization Survey.  A detailed annual survey indicating who was victimized, by whom, and in what ways.
   
• National White Collar Crime Center.
  
  
• Racial prejudice in punishment (from Human Rights Watch)
  
  
• Sentencing Project.  Links to sites on a variety of issues.  Has data on punishment, incarceration rates, capital punishment, disenfranchisement of felons, etc.
   
• Sourcebook on Crime 2003.   Compilation of statistics from more than 100 sources.  Compiled by SUNY - Albany.
   
• Statistical Abstracts.  Information from the Census Bureau.   Data concerning many aspects of american society.
  
   
• Uniform Crime Reports.  From the FBI.
  
  

Punishment in general

• American Bar's Association's Criminal Justice Section.  Includes their proposed standards, changes in current laws, etc,
   
• Bentham, Jeremy. The Rationale of Punishment.  A utilitarian account of punishment, including discussions of the aims and forms of punishment.
   
• Boston Review.  Special issue  "Crime, Punishment, and the Limits of Law.' on "Crime, Punishment, and the Limits of Law.'
   
• Criminal Justice Links. Extensive list of links to sites on criminal justice from around the world.  From the University of Leeds (UK).
  
  
• Duff, Antony. "Legal Punishment."  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  A detailed and careful introduction to the philosophy of punishment.  Includes bibliography.
  
  
• Families against Mandatory Minimum.  Citizens opposed to laws which do not give judges discretion in sentencing.
  
  
• Kleinig, John. "The Hardness of Hard Treatment."  A philosopher at John Jay School of Criminal Justice discusses the current trend toward harsh punishments.
  
  
• Murphy, Jeffrie. "Punishment and Retribution."  Radio interview on the topic of the paper included in this volume. [RealAudio]
  
  
• Pasquerella, Lynn.  "Making Hard Times ever Harder."  Radio interview on the topic of the paper included in this volume. [RealAudio]
  
  
• Rawls, John. "Two Concepts of Rules."  An attempt to show that the best understanding of punishment includes elements of both deterrence and retributive theories.
   
• Restorative Justice.  From the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking (University of Minnesota).
   
• Restorative Justice.org.  Links to numerous resources.
   
• U.S. Code.  From Cornell University Law School.
  
  
• U.S. Sentencing Commission.  Official proposals for changes in the criminal justice system.  Includes links to various governmental and non-governmental sites.
  

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