Re-examination of the Criminal Deterrent Effects of Capital Punishment in the United States, 1978-1998
The purpose of this study was to estimate the deterrent
 effect of capital punishment by employing a methodology that accounted
 for model uncertainty by integrating various studies into a single
 coherent analysis. First, this study replicated the results from two
 previous studies, Dezhbakhsh, Rubin and Shepherd …