Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment - Comparative Perspectives

Klappentext How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? In this volume the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty we need to know more about the "cultural lives"-past and present-of the state's ultimate sanction. Zusammenfassung In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "culturalives" - past and present - of the state's ultimate sanction.

Product details

• Authors: Austin Boulanger Sarat
• Assisted by: Christian Boulanger (Editor), Austin Sarat (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780804752336
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5233-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology