John M. Johnson
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John M. Johnson has published eleven books and over 100 articles and chapters on topics such as existential and interactional theory, official corruption, domestic violence, religious crusades, qualitative methods, research ethics, justice theory, the death penalty, formal organizations, bureaucratic propaganda, drug laws, white collar crime, and prison reform. He usually does qualitative research, and his recent research interests have focused on human rights, the death penalty, orders of protection, stalking, and the nature of forgiveness. He loves teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His most recent undergraduate courses have included Justice Theory, Homicide and Serial Killers, Research Methods, Domestic Violence, and The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights.-faculty profile
Books
The cutting edge
The top ten death penalty myths
"The death penalty remains one of the most controversial issues in the United States. Its proponents claim many things in their defense of its continued application. For example, they claim that it deters crime, that death by lethal injection is painless and humane, that it is racially neutral, and that it provides "closure" to families of the victims. In this comprehensive review of the major death penalty issues, the authors systematically dismantle each one of these myths about capital punishment in a hard-hitting critique of how our social, political, and community leaders have used fear and myth (symbolic politics) to misrepresent the death penalty as a public policy issue. They successfully demonstrate how our political and community leaders have used myth and emotional appeals to misrepresent the facts about capital executions."--Jacket.