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 and 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 and 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 and 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: journal of the American Judicature Society. 77-78. 2009
- DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 489-508. 2009
- The innocence commission: Preventing wrongful convictions and restoring the criminal justice system. Judicature: journal of the American Judicature Society. 202-203. 2008
- The death penalty on trial: Crisis in American Justice. Judicature: journal of the American Judicature Society. 87-89. 2005
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Killing as punishment: Reflections on the death penalty in America.
Punishment and Society: the international journal of penology.
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: a journal of reviews.
758-759.
2003
- Wrongful convictions in of the innocent - Introduction. Judicature: journal of the American Judicature Society. 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: an interdisciplinary and international journal.
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: a journal of ethnographic research.
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: a journal of reviews. 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: a journal of reviews.
779-780.
1987
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LICENSED TO LIVE - COKER,JB, MARTIN,JP.
Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews.
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: a journal of reviews.
463-463.
1985
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VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE - ARCHER,D, GARTNER,R.
Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews.
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: a journal of ethnographic research.
140-161.
1983
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THE FLORIDA SUPREME-COURT AND DEATH-PENALTY APPEALS.
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
913-926.
1983
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CITIES WITH LITTLE CRIME - THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND - CLINARD,MB.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research.
497-498.
1981
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ESSAYS IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY - FOX,RC.
Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews.
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: a journal of ethnographic research.
267-273.
1979
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Teaching
courses taught
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SOCY 1001 - Introduction to Sociology
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Examines basic sociological ideas including social relations, social interaction, social structure, and social change. Examples are drawn from societies around the world. -
SOCY 4014 - Criminology
Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020
Examines the scientific study of types of criminal behavior and explanations for criminal behavior, with special attention to social factors affecting criminal behavior. -
SOCY 4104 - The Death Penalty in America
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Examines the historical and international use of capital punishment, and then focuses on its use and status in the United States in this century, with a special look at Colorado. Critically examines the arguments for and against capital punishment. The inmates on death row and their families will be examined, as well as the needs of families of homicide victims.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Purdue University 1977
- M.A., Eastern Michigan University 1974
- B.A., Michigan State University 1972
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Belgium Country
- Europe Continent
- Indonesia Country
- Norway Country
- United Kingdom Country