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Murder stories : ideological narratives in capital punishment /

Murder Stories takes on the difficult question of American retention of capital punishment by investigating the elusive role of ideology in the law. As such it is a prime example of contemporary scholarship on the death penalty and law & society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplan, Paul, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2012.
Colección:Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Capital punishment conflicts, narrativity, hegemony, and resistance
  • The American creed and American capital punishment
  • Death especially deregulated
  • The American creed in prosecutor and defender narratives
  • Forgetting the future : cause lawyering and the work of California capital trial defenders
  • Facts and furies : the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors.