America's Death Penalty : Between Past and Present
David. Garland
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : NYU Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (243 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Getting the Question Right? Ways of Thinking about the Death Penalty; 2 Modes of Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty in Historical Perspective; 3 The Death Penalty: Between Law, Sovereignty, and Biopolitics; 4 Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: History, the Death Penalty, and the American Experience; 5 Hanging and the English Judges: The Judicial Politics of Retention and Abolition; 6 Interposition: Segregation, Capital Punishment, and the Forging of the Post-New Deal Political Leader. - 7 The Convict's Two Lives: Civil and Natural Death in the American PrisonAbout the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. - Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate tool of punishment. The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in our public life and left an indelible imprint on our politics and culture. It has also provoked intense scholarly debate, much of it devoted to explaining the roots of American exceptionalism. America's Death Penalty take
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| ISBN | 0814732666. - 0814732674. - 9780814732663. - 9780814732670
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