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Research question: Does capital punishment deter homicide crimes? Working thesis statement: Capital punishment ends up consuming taxpayers’ money and does not deter homicide crimes. Detailed Ou... tline: I. Working Thesis in Introduction: Capital punishment ends up consuming taxpayers’ money and does not deter homicide crimes. a. Introduce the concept of capital punishment and its cost implications. b. Show how the efficacy of capital punishment in deterrence of homicide crimes. Sources 1. Ehrlich, I. (2017). Economics of Criminal Law. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics, 3, 295. 2. National Conference of State Legislatures. (2019). States and Capital Punishment. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/death- penalty.aspx II. Capital punishment in the United States Sources 1. Nagin, D. S. (2018). Deterrent effects of the certainty and severity of punishment. In Deterrence, Choice, and Crime, Volume 23 (pp. 157-185). Routledge. 2. Lundberg, A. (2019). On the Public Finance of Capital Punishment. Available at SSRN 3367170. 3. Bohm, R. M. (2016). Deathquest: An introduction to the theory and practice of capital punishment in the United States. Taylor & Francis. III. The Theory of Deterrence Sources 1. Waldo, G. P., & Myers, W. (2019). Criminological research and the death penalty: has research by criminologists impacted capital punishment practices?. American journal of criminal justice, 44(4), 536-580. 2. Tomlinson, K. D. (2016). An examination of deterrence theory: Where do we stand. Fed. Probation, 80, 33. 3. Chalfin, A., & McCrary, J. (2017). Criminal deterrence: A review of the literature. Journal of Economic Literature, 55(1), 5-48. [Show More]

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