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Confronting the death penalty : How language influences juros in capital cases

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Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016Description: 237p xiISBN:
  • 9780199334162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.730000 CON
Contents:
Table of contents Table of Contents ; 1 Introduction: "That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do" ; 2 Doing Death in Texas: Studying jurors in "the death penalty state" ; 3 "I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law": Emotion and objectivity in capital jurors law. ; 4 Facing death: Empathy, emotion and embodied actions in jurors'decisions ; 5 Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants ; 6 Agents of the state: Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions ; 7 Conclusions: Linguistic dehumanization and democracy
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Table of contents

Table of Contents ; 1 Introduction: "That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do" ; 2 Doing Death in Texas: Studying jurors in "the death penalty state" ; 3 "I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law": Emotion and objectivity in capital jurors law. ; 4 Facing death: Empathy, emotion and embodied actions in jurors'decisions ; 5 Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants ; 6 Agents of the state: Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions ; 7 Conclusions: Linguistic dehumanization and democracy

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