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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
2012.
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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.