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Ernest Van den Haag, "a professor of jurisprudence and public policy at Fordham University, argues in behalf of retaining the ultimate penal sanction. John P. Conrad, a sociologist whose credits include tours of duty as chiefof research at both the California Department of Corrections and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, takes up the abolitionist banner. The debate follows a freewheeling format, allowing the partisans to explore a variety of topics, from racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty to deterrence theory." (Nation)