Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition

By:

Garland David

Contributor(s):

Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010Description: 417p iISBN:

9780199594993

Subject(s):

1. Power - Social Science - U S A 2. Capital Punishment - Decentralization In Government 3. Discrimination In Capital Punishment

DDC classification:

364.660973 GAR

Contents:

Table of contents Prologue ; 1. Thinking about capital punishment ; 2. The American way of death ; 3. Capital punishment in the shadow of lynching ; 4. Capital punishment in long-term perspective ; 5. The decline of the death penalty in Europe and America ; 6. The causes of capital punishment's decline ; 7. The American state in comparative perspective ; 8. American society, American violence, American culture ; 9. Capital punishment and the American social structure ; 10. An American abolition: Furman v Georgia in context ; 11. Backlash: the new meanings of capital punishment ; 12. Rationalize, civilize, democratize: the Supreme Court strategies ; 13. The uses of capital punishment ; 14. The peculiar institution explained

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BOOKs	National Law School	364.660973 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		34596

Table of contents
Prologue ; 1. Thinking about capital punishment ; 2. The American way of death ; 3. Capital punishment in the shadow of lynching ; 4. Capital punishment in long-term perspective ; 5. The decline of the death penalty in Europe and America ; 6. The causes of capital punishment's decline ; 7. The American state in comparative perspective ; 8. American society, American violence, American culture ; 9. Capital punishment and the American social structure ; 10. An American abolition: Furman v Georgia in context ; 11. Backlash: the new meanings of capital punishment ; 12. Rationalize, civilize, democratize: the Supreme Court strategies ; 13. The uses of capital punishment ; 14. The peculiar institution explained

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