The ultimate coercive sanction

HRAF Press New Haven, CT Published In Pages: 1-164
By Otterbein, Keith F.

Hypothesis

Centralized political systems are more likely to torture criminals to death (p.98).

Note

"Centralized political systems" groups together all of the state societies and compares them to tribes without feuding, and tribes with feuding grouped with bands.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Kendall's TauSupportedp<.001tau-c=.70UNKNOWN