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Unit VII. Deviance and Conformity
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Exploring Data
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A Comparative Look at the Death Penalty
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DescriptionThis exercise asks students to study and compare death penalty data within the United States and across the world.
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Learning GoalsTo learn how to formulate a sociological hypothesis that might be related to differences in execution rates.Back to top
To learn how to access data to text the relationship you have hypothesized. -
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ActionsGo to the death penalty information center’s online fact sheet. Look over the fact sheet and then answer the following questions.Back to top
1. How does the total racial composition of America (White 75.1%, Black 12.3%, Hispanic 12.5%*) compare with the racial composition of Death Row Inmates?
2. How does each region compare regarding its number of executions?
3. Compare the support for a life sentence without parole with the support for the death penalty. Were you surprised?
Now go to Amnesty International’s website on the death penalty and answer the following questions:
4. Which countries committed the vast majority of executions?
5. Compare these countries in terms of different sociological factors.
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Creator/SourceJennifer Gerdes. New York University. February 2008.