Is the death penalty dying?

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sarat, Austin
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008.
• Σειρά: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 42, special issue.
• Θέματα: Capital punishment.; Criminal law & procedure.; Penology & punishment.; Law > Criminal Law > General.; Political Science > General.

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Evolutionary history: the changing purposes for capital punishment / Beau Breslin, John J.P. Howley and Molly Appel
• The heart has its reasons: examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes
• Rule of law abolitionism / Benjamin S. Yost
• Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty / Leigh B. Bienen
• Facts and furies: the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors / Paul J. Kaplan
• The judicial use of international and foreign law in death penalty cases: a poisoned chalice? / Bharat Malkani
• Death, unraveled / Jesse Cheng.