America's death penalty : between past and present /

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Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Garland, David, McGowen, Randall, 1948-, Meranze, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Capital punishment > United States.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Capital punishment.
Todesstrafe.
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Getting the question right? Ways of thinking about the death penalty / Randall McGowen
  • Modes of capital punishment: the death penalty in historical perspective / David Garland
  • The death penalty: between law, sovereignty, and biopolitics / Michael Meranze
  • Through the wrong end of the telescope: history, the death penalty, and the American experience / Randall McGowen
  • Hanging and the English judges: the judicial politics of retention and abolition / Douglas Hay
  • Interposition: segregation, capital punishment, and the forging of the post-New Deal political leader / Jonathan Simon
  • The convict's two lives: civil and natural death in the American prison / Rebecca McLennan.

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