Is the death penalty dying? : European and American perspectives /
"Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition"--Provided by publisher |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780511991240 051199124X 9780511993275 0511993277 0511989458 9780511989452 9780511985676 0511985673 9780511994463 051199446X 9780511974380 0511974388 9781282967182 1282967185 9786612967184 6612967188 1107217091 9781107217096 0511987641 9780511987649 0511992238 9780511992230 9781107634275 110763427X |