Table of Contents: “…-- The medieval origins of the Supreme Court's prohibition on executing the insane / Karl Shoemaker -- The unlucky psychopath as death penalty prototype / Robert Weisberg -- Waiving from death row / Susan R. …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Due process -- Abolishing the death penalty -- The ultimate penalty.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Juries and local justice -- Juries and higher justice -- Jury selection and the cross-sectional ideal -- Scientific jury selection -- The unanimous verdict -- Race and the death penalty…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Origins of cruel and unusual punishment -- Death penalty -- Execution methods -- Cruel and unusual due to the doctrine of proportionality -- Corporal punishment -- Conclusion.…”

Table of Contents: “…Eyewitness identification -- False confessions -- Informant testimony -- Problems with scientific evidence -- Professional responsibility and accountability of prosecutors and defense lawyers -- Remedies -- Death penalty.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The "anti-commandeering" rule -- Political gerrymandering -- Campaign finance -- Sovereign immunity -- The death penalty -- The Second Amendment (gun control) -- Constitution of the United States.…”

Table of Contents: “…Eyewitness identification -- False confessions -- Informant testimony -- Problems with scientific evidence -- Professional responsibility and accountability of prosecutors and defense lawyers -- Remedies -- Death penalty.…”

Table of Contents: “…Race, crime, and justice: definitions and context -- Race, colonialism, and the emergence of racial democracy -- The history of racial science: social science and the birth of criminology -- Social problems and the U.S. racial state -- Housing inequality and the geography of residential racial segregation -- The problem of urban America: race and the emergence of mass incarceration -- Policing the city -- The colonial order of the court -- Imprisoning race: from slavery to the prison -- "Race to execution": lynching, mass incarceration, and the resurgence of the death penalty -- Conclusion: futures of race and crime?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A strange life and death -- The end of a bitter experience -- The acquittal of a murderer -- The desire of death -- A dream crime -- The death penalty.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Abortion -- Euthanasia -- The death penalty -- Sexual equality -- Discrimination and reverse discrimination -- Sexual integrity -- Pornography and censorship -- Violence -- Economic injustice -- Environmental and population control.…”

Table of Contents: “…Pursuing the good death -- Hidden death -- Death at war -- Judges and death -- Doctors and death -- Choosing death -- The death penalty -- All the days of my life.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction to law and popular culture -- The adversary system and the courtroom genre -- Lawyers as heroes -- Lawyers as villains -- The life of lawyers -- Legal education -- Law on television -- The criminal justice system -- The criminal jury -- Constitutional rights in criminal cases -- The death penalty -- The civil justice system -- Civil rights -- Family law.…”

Table of Contents: “…Georgia (1976) -- Hugo Bedau, "Against the death penalty," from "Capital punishment" -- Ernest van Den Haag, "For the death penalty," from "Deterrence and the death penalty" -- Albert Camus, "The unique horror of the death penalty," from "Reflections on the guillotine."…”

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Table of Contents: “…Capital punishment/death penalty -- Clemency -- Cruel and unusual punishment -- Due process rights of prisoners -- Early release -- Free speech rights of prisoners -- Furlough and work-release programs -- Gangs and violence in prison -- Healthcare and medical assistance for prisoners -- Legal assistance for prisoners -- Life sentence -- Mentally ill and mentally challenged inmates -- Preventive detention -- Prison labor -- Prison overcrowding -- Prison privatization and contract facilities -- Punishment versus rehabilitation -- Religious rights -- Sex offender treatment -- Shaming penalties.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The challenge of forensic psychology -- Roles and responsibilities of forensic psychologists -- The police: selection, training, and evaluation -- Criminal profiling -- Hypnosis and lie detection in criminal investigation -- Improving eyewitness identification procedures -- Police interrogations and confessions -- Alternative dispute resolution and trial preparation -- Jury selection -- Insanity and competence -- Battered woman syndrome and domestic violence -- Rape trauma syndrome -- The sexual abuse of children -- Child custody decisions -- Discrimination -- Sexual harassment -- Death penalty trials and appeals -- Influencing public policy.…”

Table of Contents: “…The history of inequality in the criminal justice system -- Racial and ethnic profiling -- Race, ethnicity, and jury selection -- Race, ethnicity, and the death penalty -- Race, ethnicity, and the war on drugs -- Seeking diversity in the criminal justice system -- Crime victimization.…”

Table of Contents: “…The clinical and legal landscape -- The insanity defense -- Mental disability and the death penalty -- A jurisprudence of dangerousness -- The civilization of the criminal law -- Competency in the criminal process -- Treatment decision making -- Conclusion : rethinking legally relevant mental disorder.…”