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Sarat Austin

The cultural lives of capital punishment : Comparative perspectives - Stanford Stanford University Press 2005 - 342p xi

Contents:
• Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing / Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat;
• Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization / Jürgen Martschukat;
• Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 / Patrick Timmons;
• The cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States / Judith Randle;
• European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States / Evi Girling;
• Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film / Louise Tyler;
• Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse / Agata Fijalkowski;
• Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands / Botagoz Kassymbekova;
• Death and the nation : state killing in India / Julia Eckert’;
• Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge / Shai J. Lavi;
• The Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority / Judith Mendelsohn Rood;
• The death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience / David T. Johnson;
• What is wrong with capital punishment? : official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China / Virgil K. Y. Ho;
• Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore / Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz;
• Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo / Sangmin Bae;
• Index.



ISBN: 9780804752343

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Capital Punsihment - Cross-Cultural Studies

Dewey Class. No.: 364.660000 / SAR