Haney’s research showed moral disengagement mechanisms let jurors impose death sentences

Evidence

In his influential research on capital punishment, Craig Haney (1997, 2005) provides a richly nuanced analysis of how enlisting the various mechanisms of moral disengagement enables jurors to sentence a person to death. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1985

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1985
• XREF: connects to: Jurors’ distal role in executions weakens their moral self-sanctions — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1872; Execution staff displace moral responsibility onto judges and juries who decided the sentence; Jurors displace moral responsibility onto incomprehensible sentencing instructions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1995 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Jurors’ distal role in executions weakens their moral self-sanctions — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1872; Execution staff displace moral responsibility onto judges and juries who decided the sentence; Jurors displace moral responsibility onto incomprehensible sentencing instructions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1995 (+6 more)