Explain the primary issues related to fairness and the death penalty
What will be an ideal response?
Statistics show that the death penalty is applied most often to men, disproportionately to minorities, and invariably to poor defendants. However, murderers are also women, whites, and people from middle- and high-income brackets. If is unfair that those extra-legal factors influence the death penalty but since they do, the death penalty must be considered to be unfair. Retributionists point out that this still doesn't mean the death penalty is unfair, only that it is being administered unfairly. Those people who are successfully avoiding execution because of their gender, race, or income still deserve the death penalty and the "fix" should be directed toward accomplishing that goal rather than abolishing the death penalty.
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a. cognate b. hybrid c. marginal d. minor
Evaluation research and traditional social science are different because
A) Evaluation is not designed to test the implications of a social theory B) The goal of evaluation research is not to create a broad theoretical explanation for what is found C) Researchers cannot design evaluation studies simply in accord with the highest scientific standards D) All of the above
Rates of recidivism for those under community supervision:
A. are lower than for those who go to prison. B. are not tracked by law enforcement. C. are no higher than for those who go to prison. D. are much higher than for those who go to prison. E. are tracked by independent researchers, and are therefore questionable.
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What will be an ideal response?