research overview
- I conduct research on the application of the death penalty.
- Contact Info
Radelet, Michael L
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Sociology
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Capital punishment
Publications
selected publications
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book
- The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado 2017
- Facing the Death Penalty: Essays on a Cruel and Unusual Punishment 2011
- The International Sourcebook on Capital Punishment. Ed. Radelet, Michael L. 1997
- Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row. Ed. Radelet, Michael L. 1996
- In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases 1994
- Executing the Mentally Ill: The Criminal Justice System and the Case of Alvin Ford. Ed. Radelet, Michael L. 1993
- Capital Punishment in America: An Annotated Bibliography 1988
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chapter
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The Decline of the Judicial Override.
Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
539-557.
2019
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 2018
- Capital Punishment. 433-448. 2018
- How DNA Has Changed Contemporary Death Penalty Debates. 138-158. 2017
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Foreword.
Comptes Rendus Physique.
957-959.
2016
- Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists 2013
- The Role of the Innocence Argument in Contemporary Death Penalty Debates 2013
- The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates 2013
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 2011
- Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists 2011
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 2011
- The Myth of Infallibility: A Reply to Markman and Cassell 2011
- The Executioner’s Waning Defenses 2009
- The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates 2009
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Resolving Homicides 2009
- Humanizing Death Row Inmates 2008
- The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates 2008
- The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates 2007
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Foreword.
Adsorption.
171-172.
2007
- Learning from Homicide Co-Victims: A University Based Project, 2006
- The Role of Victim’s Race and Geography on Death Sentencing: Some Recent Data from Illinois 2006
- Deterrence and the Death Penalty: The Views of the Experts 2005
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 2005
- The Myth of Infallibility: A Reply to Markman and Cassell 2005
- 36 Botched Executions 2004
- On Botched Executionst 2004
- The Execution of the Innocent 2004
- The Execution of the Innocent 2003
- Le Mouvement vers l’abolition universele de la peine de mort: le poit de vue actuel des Etats-Unis 2003
- Parole Interviews of Sex Offenders: The Role of Impression Management 2003
- The Execution of the Innocent 2002
- The Execution of the Innocent 2002
- Changing the Way the Death Penalty is Justified 2001
- Erroneous Convictions and the Death Penalty 2001
- Racial Bias and the Conviction of the Innocent 2001
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The changing nature of death penalty debates.
Annual Review of Sociology.
43-61.
2000
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Deterrence and the death penalty: The views of the experts.
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.
1-16.
1998
- Executions of Whites for Crimes Against Blacks: Exceptions to the Rule? 1997
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 1997
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 1996
- Physician Participation in Capital Punishment 1996
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 1995
- Race and Prosecutorial Discretion in Homicide Cases 1995
- Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases 1994
- Executions of Whites for Crimes Against Blacks: Exceptions to the Rule? 1994
- Sociologists as Expert Witnesses in Capital Cases: A Case Study 1992
- Testimony before The House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, July 16, 1987 1991
- Fallibility and Finality: Type II Errors and Capital Punishment 1988
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MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE IN POTENTIALLY CAPITAL CASES.
Stanford Law Review.
21-179.
1987
- Sociologists as Expert Witnesses in Capital Cases: A Case Study 1987
- RACE AND CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT - AN OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUES. Crime and social justice. 94-113. 1986
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RACE AND PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION IN HOMICIDE CASES.
Law & Society Review.
587-621.
1985
- Why are Social Characteristics of Psychiatric Patients Changing?: The Role of Shifts in Characteristics of Psychiatrists and Their Work Settings 1984
- Differential Adaptive Capacity and Hearing Impairment 1982
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The Decline of the Judicial Override.
Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
539-557.
2019
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journal article
- Race as a Semi-Measurable Component of Social Status. Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 2020
- Race, Ethnicity, and the Death Penalty in San Diego County: The Predictable Consequences of Excessive Discretion.. Columbia human rights law review. 1070-1070. 2020
- RACE AND DEATH SENTENCING FOR OKLAHOMA HOMICIDES COMMITTED BETWEEN 1990 AND 2012. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. 733-756. 2017
- Have Mercy: New Opportunities for Revisiting and Reversing the Decline in Capital Clemency. 18-23. 2016
- The Incremental Retributive Impact of a Death Sentence over Life without Parole. Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 795-815. 2016
- The Scholar and Mentor. Iowa Law Review. 1965-1967. 2012
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The Death Penalty in Texas On Failing to Acknowledge Irrelevance.
Criminology and Public Policy.
573-578.
2012
- Health and health care in the U.S. Virgin Islands: challenges and perceptions.. The ABNF journal : official journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in Higher Education, Inc. 4-7. 2012
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Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition..
American Journal of Sociology.
2031-2033.
2011
- When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of justice. Judicature. 77-78. 2009
- DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. 489-508. 2009
- The innocence commission: Preventing wrongful convictions and restoring the criminal justice system. Judicature. 202-203. 2008
- The death penalty on trial: Crisis in American Justice. Judicature. 87-89. 2005
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Killing as punishment: Reflections on the death penalty in America.
Punishment & Society.
225-226.
2005
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From the Field: THE GROWING SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION FOR DEATH PENALTY JURISPRUDENCE.
Journal of Crime and Justice.
119-130.
2004
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The Leviathan's choice: Capital punishment in the twenty-first century.
Contemporary Sociology.
758-759.
2003
- Wrongful convictions in of the innocent - Introduction. Judicature. 67-68. 2002
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The death penalty: An American history..
American Journal of Legal History.
322-323.
2001
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Humanizing the death penalty.
Social problems.
83-87.
2001
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Comment on Umbreit and Vos.
Homicide Studies.
88-92.
2000
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THE AFTERMATH OF FORD V WAINWRIGHT.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
339-351.
1992
- THE DEBATE ON TREATING INDIVIDUALS INCOMPETENT FOR EXECUTION. American Journal of Psychiatry. 596-605. 1992
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DEATH WORK - A STUDY OF THE MODERN EXECUTION PROCESS - JOHNSON,R.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
491-493.
1992
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EXECUTIONS OF WHITES FOR CRIMES AGAINST BLACKS - EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE.
Sociological Quarterly.
529-544.
1989
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THE MYTH OF INFALLIBILITY - A REPLY.
Stanford Law Review.
161-170.
1988
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THE MARITAL INTEGRATION OF RELIGIOUS INDEPENDENTS - A REEVALUATION OF ITS SIGNIFICANCE.
Review of religious research.
228-241.
1988
- THE DEATH-PENALTY - ISSUES AND ANSWERS - LESTER,D. Contemporary Sociology. 66-67. 1988
- Treating those found incompetent for execution: ethical chaos with only one solution.. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 297-308. 1988
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THE DILEMMA OF DIFFERENCE - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEW OF STIGMA - AINLAY,SC, BECKER,G, COLEMAN,LM.
Contemporary Sociology.
779-780.
1987
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LICENSED TO LIVE - COKER,JB, MARTIN,JP.
Contemporary Sociology.
98-98.
1987
- Socioeconomic influences in patient assignment to PA or MD providers.. Physician assistant (American Academy of Physician Assistants). 164-passim. 1986
- Ethics and the psychiatric determination of competency to be executed.. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 37-53. 1986
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MURDER IN MIAMI - AN ANALYSIS OF HOMICIDE PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN DADE COUNTY (MIAMI) FLORIDA, 1917-1983 - WILBANKS,W.
Contemporary Sociology.
463-463.
1985
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VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE - ARCHER,D, GARTNER,R.
Contemporary Sociology.
540-541.
1985
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PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS IN PRIMARY CARE - PATIENT ASSIGNMENT AND TASK DELEGATION.
Medical Care.
268-282.
1984
- DIFFERENTIAL ADAPTIVE CAPACITY TO HEARING IMPAIRMENT. Journal of Rehabilitation. 64-69. 1983
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FAMILIES, PRISONS, AND MEN WITH DEATH SENTENCES - THE HUMAN IMPACT OF STRUCTURED UNCERTAINTY.
Journal of Family Issues.
593-612.
1983
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PAROLE INTERVIEWS OF SEX OFFENDERS - THE ROLE OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
140-161.
1983
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THE FLORIDA SUPREME-COURT AND DEATH-PENALTY APPEALS.
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.
913-926.
1983
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CITIES WITH LITTLE CRIME - THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND - CLINARD,MB.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
497-498.
1981
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ESSAYS IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY - FOX,RC.
Contemporary Sociology.
431-432.
1981
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HEALTH BELIEFS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND TRANQUILIZER USE.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
165-173.
1981
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RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH-PENALTY.
American Sociological Review.
918-927.
1981
- The effect of female social position on geographic variations in the sex ratio of arrests.. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 465-476. 1980
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Introduction.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
267-273.
1979
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Purdue University 1977
- M.A., Eastern Michigan University 1974
- B.A., Michigan State University 1972
awards and honors
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