Murdering Myths - The Story Behind the Death Penalty

Klappentext In Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Judith Kay goes beyond the hype and statistics to examine Americans' deep-seated beliefs about crime and punishment. She argues that Americans share a counter-productive idea of justice--that punishment corrects bad behavior, suffering pays for wrong deeds, and victims' desire for revenge is natural and inevitable. Drawing on interviews with both victims and inmates, Kay shows how this belief harms perpetrators, victims, and society and calls for a new narrative that recognizes the humanity in all of us. Zusammenfassung A Story to Die For exposes what many Americans would prefer to deny that murderers! victims families and the state delude themselves with the same story that excuses doing unto others as was done unto you.

Product details

• Authors: Judith W. Kay
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2005
• EAN: 9780742523357
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2335-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Polemics; Polemics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology