Abstract

Murder and the Death Penalty

Calvert, E. Roy | October 16, 1929 issue

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In many discussions now taking place concerning the prevalence of violent crime in the United States, England is often cited as a country where the homicide rate is relatively low-with the natural inference that the adoption of her penal methods would prove an effective remedy for the crime situation here. Such a conclusion ignores the fact that there is considerable difference in important particulars between conditions in the two countries, and that the present crime situation in the United States is in part factors absent from English social life.

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VIOLENT crimes; CRIMINAL law; CRIME; QUALITY of life; SOCIAL interaction; UNITED States
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