Is the Death Penalty an Effective Deterrent?
Is the Death Penalty an Effective Deterrent?
Annotated Bibliography
PS 223 Forensic Psychology I
Research Question: Is the Death Penalty an Effective Deterrent?
Honeyman, J. C., & Ogloff, J. P. (1996). Capital punishment: Arguments for life and death. Canadian Journal Of Behavioural Science/Revue Canadienne Des Sciences Du Comportement, 28(1), 27-35.
The main purpose of this article was to investigate the effects of the death penalty and the justification for the punishment. A key question the authors looked to answer was whether or not the participants arguments of what sentence to suggest to a person who committed a murder in the first degree effective in resulting in the death penalty. The main inference in this article is that the participants who voted more towards the death penalty, voted for it because of the retribution, economics, and the possible mistakes. Those who recommended the death penalty had higher scores on a measure of vengeance then those who picked life sentence. In this experiment there was 305 participants. A 2x6 design, with no argument, and no justification control condition was used. They were then asked to indicate what sentence they would recommend after they heard the scenario. They were also told to pick how confident they were with their decision and then complete a 20 item Vengeance Scales. Analyses were done to figure out whether or not participants demographic characteristics influenced their decisions. Participants who chose the death penalty seemed to be older then those who chose the life sentence. The limitations of this study was that they failed to provide more evidence to support the previous studies. Future research should include the death penalty attitudes and Vengeance Scales scores to act as a control for gender to avoid any possible cofound. Future research should be used to test the generalizability of findings of cases using the death penalty.
Bailey,
Annotated Bibliography
PS 223 Forensic Psychology I
Research Question: Is the Death Penalty an Effective Deterrent?
Honeyman, J. C., & Ogloff, J. P. (1996). Capital punishment: Arguments for life and death. Canadian Journal Of Behavioural Science/Revue Canadienne Des Sciences Du Comportement, 28(1), 27-35.
The main purpose of this article was to investigate the effects of the death penalty and the justification for the punishment. A key question the authors looked to answer was whether or not the participants arguments of what sentence to suggest to a person who committed a murder in the first degree effective in resulting in the death penalty. The main inference in this article is that the participants who voted more towards the death penalty, voted for it because of the retribution, economics, and the possible mistakes. Those who recommended the death penalty had higher scores on a measure of vengeance then those who picked life sentence. In this experiment there was 305 participants. A 2x6 design, with no argument, and no justification control condition was used. They were then asked to indicate what sentence they would recommend after they heard the scenario. They were also told to pick how confident they were with their decision and then complete a 20 item Vengeance Scales. Analyses were done to figure out whether or not participants demographic characteristics influenced their decisions. Participants who chose the death penalty seemed to be older then those who chose the life sentence. The limitations of this study was that they failed to provide more evidence to support the previous studies. Future research should include the death penalty attitudes and Vengeance Scales scores to act as a control for gender to avoid any possible cofound. Future research should be used to test the generalizability of findings of cases using the death penalty.
Bailey,
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