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Michael L. Radelet

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Bachelors Sociology University of Notre Dame

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According to Wikipedia, Michael L. Radelet is a sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a professor in, and chairs, the Department of Sociology at the university. In his research, Radelet focuses on his interests in criminology, deviance, capital punishment, societal reaction to crime, racial disparities in death sentencing and crime victims. Radelet has taught courses covering introductory sociology, criminology for both undergraduate and graduate levels, capital punishment for both undergraduate and graduate levels, sociology of mental health and illness for both undergraduate and graduate levels, graduate seminar on health professions, social and ethical issues in medical practice, human development, statistics, and social problems. He is the author of the book Facing the Death Penalty that was published in 1989, in which he describes the realities of capital punishment to those condemned.

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Miscarriages Of Justice In Potentially Capital Cases (1987) (223)
Racial Characteristics and the Imposition of the Death Penalty. (1981) (174)
RACE AND PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION IN HOMICIDE CASES (1985) (153)
THE CHANGING NATURE OF DEATH PENALTY DEBATES (2000) (134)
In Spite Of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases (1992) (103)
Deterrence and the death penalty: The views of the experts (1996) (64)
Essays in Medical Sociology. (1981) (59)
Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates?: The Views of Leading Criminologists (2009) (54)
The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (2009) (48)
EXECUTIONS OF WHITES FOR CRIMES AGAINST BLACKS: Exceptions to the Rule? (1989) (40)
Ethics and the psychiatric determination of competency to be executed. (1986) (35)
The Dilemma of Difference: A Multidisciplinary View of Stigma (2012) (32)
The Execution of the Innocent (1998) (30)
Families, Prisons, and Men with Death Sentences (1983) (28)
Impact of Legally Inappropriate Factors on Death Sentencing for California Homicides, 1990-1999, The Empirical Analysis (2005) (27)
THE IMPACT OF LEGALLY INAPPROPRIATE FACTORS ON DEATH SENTENCING FOR CALIFORNIA HOMICIDES, 1990-1999 (2005) (25)
The debate on treating individuals incompetent for execution. (1992) (23)
The Marital Integration of Religious Independents: A Reevaluation of Its Significance (1988) (21)
Health beliefs, social networks, and tranquilizer use. (1981) (21)
Treating those found incompetent for execution: ethical chaos with only one solution. (1988) (20)
Executive Clemency in Post-Furman Capital Cases (1993) (19)
The Florida Supreme Court and Death Penalty Appeals (1983) (19)
Executing the Mentally Ill: The Criminal Justice System and the Case of Alvin Ford (1993) (19)
Licensed to live (1987) (18)
Physician Assistants in Primary Care: Patient Assignment and Task Delegation (1984) (18)
Death Sentencing in East Baton Rouge Parish, 1990-2008 (2011) (17)
The Myth of Infallibility: A Reply to Markman and Cassell (1988) (15)
Race and Death Sentencing in North Carolina, 1980-2007 (2011) (15)
Race and Capital Punishment: An Overview of the Issues (1986) (14)
Persistent Flaws in Econometric Studies of the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty (1989) (14)
Health and health care in the U.S. Virgin Islands: challenges and perceptions. (2012) (12)
Facing the Death Penalty: Essays on a Cruel and Unusual Punishment (1990) (10)
Comment on Umbreit and Vos (2000) (8)
Capital punishment in America : an annotated bibliography (1988) (7)
From the Field: THE GROWING SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION FOR DEATH PENALTY JURISPRUDENCE (2004) (7)
Race and the Construction of Evidence in Homicide Cases (2014) (6)
Oregon Law Review (2002) (5)
Race and Death Sentencing for Oklahoma Homicides Committed Between 1990 and 2012 (2017) (5)
The Incremental Retributive Impact of a Death Sentence Over Life Without Parole (2016) (5)
Humanizing the Death Penalty (2001) (4)
The aftermath of Ford v. Wainwright (1992) (3)
Differential adaptive capacity to hearing impairment. (1983) (3)
Capital Punishment: On botched executions (2004) (3)
Race and Capital Punishment (1987) (3)
[Proliferative response of the arterial wall in arterial hypertension: hyperplasia versus polyploidy]. (1985) (3)
Parole Interviews of Sex Offenders (1983) (2)
The Role of Organized Religions in Changing Death Penalty Debates (2000) (2)
The Cure That Kills (1993) (2)
Facing the Death Penalty (1990) (2)
Race and death (1995) (2)
The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado (2017) (2)
Physicians, Mental Health Professionals, and the Death Penalty (1993) (1)
The Executioner’s Waning Defenses (2009) (1)
The Predictable Disarray: Ignoring the Jury in Florida Death Penalty Cases (2017) (1)
The effect of female social position on geographic variations in the sex ratio of arrests. (1980) (1)
The Death Penalty in Texas (2012) (1)
African-Americans and the Administration of Justice (1991) (1)
Appendix 1: Catalog of Colorado Executions, 1859–Present (N = 103) (ordered by date of execution) (2017) (0)
Book Review: Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud's French Revolution (1980) (0)
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. By David Garland. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+417. $35.00. (2011) (0)
The Decline of the Judicial Override (2019) (0)
Book reviews (1986) (0)
Epilogue: Summary, Trends, and some Future Possibilities (2017) (0)
Proliferative Changes in Hypertensive Arteries: Hyperplasia Versus Polyploidy (1985) (0)
Back to Federal Court: The 1988 Hearing and beyond (1993) (0)
Appendix 3: Colorado Death Sentences: January 1, 1975–December 31, 2015 (N = 23) (ordered by date of offense) (2017) (0)
The Hickenlooper Years (2017) (0)
How DNA Has Changed Contemporary Death Penalty Debates (2017) (0)
Book Review: The birth of American law: An Italian philosopher and the American Revolution (2015) (0)
Lessons from Wrongful Convictions (2008) (0)
NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES (1992) (0)
A Comparative Perspective on the Legitimation of Homicide@@@Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective. (1985) (0)
Hangings in the Nineteenth Century (2017) (0)
Alvin Ford and the Courts: Additional Issues (1993) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Drawing the Lines: Who Lives and Who Dies? (1993) (0)
Publications received (2008) (0)
Towards the Worldwide Abolition of the Death Penalty (2002) (0)
The Death Penalty in Colorado in the Early Twenty-First Century (2017) (0)
Appendix 2: People Sentenced to Death in Colorado, 1860–December 31, 2015, Not Executed and No Longer on Death Row (ordered by the year that the death sentence was imposed) (2017) (0)
Introduction (1979) (0)
CITIES WITH LITTLE CRIME: THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND. Marshall B. Clinard. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978, 208 pp. $4.95 (paper). (1981) (0)
An Introduction to Alvin Ford (1993) (0)
Socioeconomic influences in patient assignment to PA or MD providers. (1986) (0)
Race and the Construction of Evidence in Homicide Cases (2014) (0)
Anticipating and Enduring the First Death Warrant: 1975–1981 (1993) (0)
1 THE IMPACT OF LEGALLY INAPPROPRIATE FACTORS ON DEATH SENTENCINGFOR CALI (2007) (0)
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics Symposium: The Law and Politics of the Death Penalty: Abolition, Moratorium, or Reform? (2002) (0)
Competence for Execution: The Supreme Court Speaks (1993) (0)
Family Background, the Crime, and Trial: 1953–1974 (1993) (0)
Introduction: The Ethnographic Study of Social Control (1979) (0)
Book Review: Killing as punishment: Reflections on the death penalty in America (2005) (0)
Dr. Heilbrun and Associates Reply (1993) (0)
Twentieth-Century Executions and Debates (2017) (0)
Book Review: Equal Justice and the Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis (1991) (0)
Review of Roger Hood and Surya Deva (Eds), Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics, and Public Opinion (2015) (0)
Psychological Deterioration and the Road to the Supreme Court: 1982–1986 (1993) (0)
The Thirty-Year Struggle to Obtain Execution No. 103 (2017) (0)
The execution of innocence (1998) (0)
The Death Penalty in Texas On Failing to Acknowledge Irrelevance (2012) (0)
Review of Roger Hood and Surya Deva (Eds), Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics, and Public Opinion (2014) (0)
Book Review: Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud'S French Revolution (1979) (0)
A Fresh Voice Opposing Executions (2005) (0)
Book Review: Bohm, R. M. (Ed.). (2008). The Death Penalty Today. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group. xvi, 224 pp (2008) (0)
In Spite of Meese (1994) (0)
New Thinking on Miscarriages of Justice (2009) (0)
The Death Penalty: Issues and Answers@@@The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty@@@The Ultimate Coercive Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Study of Capital Punishment (1988) (0)
The International Sourcebook on Capital Punishment (1997) (0)

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