Deterrence
Additional Resources
DPIC Resources
Podcasts
- Discussions with DPIC — Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder? Exploring murder rates, killings of police officers, and the death penalty (2017)
Reports
- Report: Deterrence is Based on Certainty of Apprehension, Not Severity of Punishment (2017)
- DPIC Analysis: Pandemic Murder Rates Highest in Death Penalty States
Archival DPIC Content
- Deterrence News and Developments: 1995 – 2004
- International Police Forum on the Death Penalty
- Summaries of Additional Deterrence Studies
Articles and Other Resources
- Stephen Oliphant, Estimating the effect of death penalty moratoriums on homicide rates using the synthetic control method, Criminology & Public Policy, Volume 21, Issue 4, 915 – 944 (November 2022)
- Brett Parker, Death Penalty Statutes and Murder Rates: Evidence From Synthetic Controls, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 18, 488 – 533 (2021)
- Death Penalty Information Center, Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder? Exploring murder rates, killings of police officers, and the death penalty (2017 podcast), Supporting data and analysis methods
- National Institute of Justice, Five Things About Deterrence, NCJ 247350 (May 2016)
- Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond, & Jens Hainmueller, Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method, 59 American Journal of Political Science 495 (2015)
- Fact sheets from Equal Justice USA and Death Penalty Focus on the death penalty and prison murders
- National Research Council, Deterrence and the Death Penalty (The National Academies Press, 2012)
- Scientific American Podcast: U.C. Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring talks about his article, “How New York Beat Crime,” in the August 2011 issue of Scientific American (broadcast date: 8/9/2011)
- Tomislav V. Kovandzic, Lynne M. Vieraitis, and Denise Paquette Boots, Does the Death Penalty Save Lives?, Criminology & Public Policy 8, no. 4 (2009)
- Michael L. Radelet, Traci L. Lacock, Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates?: The Views of Leading Criminologists, 99 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 489 (2008 – 2009)