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The Gowers Report and Capital Punishment
Dession, George
Dession, George
Abstract
T HE EAGERLY awaited Report of this Commission, appointed in 1949 to explore all aspects of the challenging problem of capital punishment, has finally appeared. On first inspection it is apparent that this is a worthy addition to the long line of invaluable Royal Commission Reports of the past on a host of problems. The impressive membership of the Commission-including not only leading representatives of the legal and medical professions but also of the career civil service and arts and letters-the ambitious scope of the field studies carried out, and the extensive comparative perspective sought by the Commission have combined to produce a study which, irrespective of one's agreement with the specific conclusions submitted, obviously ranks as a monumental contribution to this area of criminology and legal policy.