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Death Penalty Mitigation - A Handbook for Mitigation Specialists, Investigators, Social Scientists, and Lawyers (Hardcover)
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Death Penalty Mitigation - A Handbook for Mitigation Specialists, Investigators, Social Scientists, and Lawyers (Hardcover)
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This book provides an introduction to socio-legal forms of
mitigation in capital sentencing. It helps mitigation specialists,
defense investigators, social scientists, and lawyers in developing
socio-cultural themes of mitigation. It examines scientific
formulations, concepts, and frameworks for structuring social
history investigations and assessments of moral culpability. A
fundamental aim of this handbook was to provide mitigation
professionals not only with an understanding of the context of
mitigation in criminal justice thinking, but also ways of
contextualizing issues of blame and culpability. Cases are used to
illustrate how to identify, evaluate and present mitigation
evidence in assessing issues of culpability in the mitigation of
punishment in death penalty cases. It also exposes mitigation
professionals to recent developments in the social sciences with
implications for assessing issues of practical rationality,
diminished volition, unfortunate forms of socialization, criminal
propensities, socio-cultural deprivation, and gang involvement.
These topics are linked with legal and philosophical conceptions of
moral culpability that offer mitigation professionals new ways of
thinking about both proximal and remote forms of mitigation. These
socially oriented lenses, used in examining these concepts and
legal issues, offer alternative ways of thinking about issues of
capacity, choice and character in assessing diminished forms of
moral culpability. The book concludes with recommendations for
future research and other strategies for promoting the improvement
of practice in the field of capital mitigation. Unlike other books
on death penalty mitigation, this book examines issues of relevance
to social scientists, as well as mental health professionals. In
fact, it is one of the only books written on the subject that
includes opportunities for the inclusion of expert testimony on
socio-legal matters by social criminologists, sociologists, social
psychologists, and social workers.
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