Lester D
Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 2000 Oct;91(2):696. doi: 10.2466/pms.2000.91.2.696.
For the period 1977-1992, the number of homicides in a state tended to decrease more often after a year of no executions than after a year with one or more executions, the opposite of a deterrent effect.
在1977年至1992年期间,与有一次或多次死刑执行的年份之后相比,一个州在无死刑执行一年后的杀人案件数量往往更常出现下降,这与威慑效应相反。