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Under the Fool Moon: poems by Gary Lechliter, Paperback 2004
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- Country of Origin
- United States
- Field of Study
- Politics
- Features
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780195146028
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195146026
ISBN-13
9780195146028
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1844864
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Killing State : Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture
Subject
General, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law / General
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.8 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
5.7 in
Item Width
8.9 in
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College Audience
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"The papers in this collection represent an important and wide-ranging cross-section of current debate about the death penalty. Coming from varied perspectives of moral and political philosophy, legal theory, cultural criticism and what might be called political anthropology, the approachestaken range from mainstream to Nietzschean to deconstructionist. Neither is the collection univocally against the death penalty. These essays would make fruitful reading for anyone interested in the death penalty, state violence or the role of punishment in our societies more generally." - -Contemporary Political Theory, "This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problemof capital punishment....these essays...will keep us thinking well into the nextcentury."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books, "This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment.... [It] will keep us thinking well into the next century."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books, "This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment.... [It] will keep us thinking well into the next century."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books"This collection belongs in all libraries."--Choice"This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment....these essays...will keep us thinking well into the next century."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books"The papers in this collection represent an important and wide-ranging cross-section of current debate about the death penalty. Coming from varied perspectives of moral and political philosophy, legal theory, cultural criticism and what might be called political anthropology, the approaches taken range from mainstream to Nietzschean to deconstructionist. Neither is the collection univocally against the death penalty. These essays would make fruitful readingfor anyone interested in the death penalty, state violence or the role of punishment in our societies more generally." - - Contemporary Political Theory, "This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment....these essays...will keep us thinking well into the next century."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books
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The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
364.661
Synopsis
Although the US Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in the early 1970s, it has since returned with a vengeance. Today Americans live in a "killing state" in which the death penalty has become an important part of criminal justice policy, and sometimes a major factor in electoral politics. Bringing together the work of several prominent scholars, The Killing State helps explain why the USA clings tenaciously to capital punishment long after other democratic nations have abandoned it. The book signals the emergence of a new way of thinking about state killing that moves beyond abstract moral argument and narrow policy debate to assess its impact upon the US legal system, its powerful symbolic appeal, and its place in contemporary "culture wars.", Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today there appears to be a widespread public consensus in favor of capital punishment and considerable political momentum to ensure that those sentenced to death are actually executed. Yet the death penalty remains troubling and controversial for many people. The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy. Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time. Focused more on theory than on advocacy, these bracing essays open up new questions for scholars and citizens: What is the relationship of the death penalty to the maintenance of political sovereignty? In what ways does the death penalty resemble and enable other forms of law's violence? How is capital punishment portrayed in popular culture? How does capital punishment express the new politics of crime, organize positions in the "culture war," and affect the structure of American values? This book is a timely examination of a vitally important topic: the impact of state killing on our law, our politics, and our cultural life., Collecting work by several notable scholars, this book explains why the US still clings to capital punishment long after other democratic nations have abandoned it. It also exhibits a new way of thinking about state killing that goes beyond abstract moral argument and narrow policy debate to assess its impact on our legal system, its powerful symbolic appeal, and its place in today's "culture wars.", Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today there appears to be a widespread public consensus in favor of capital punishment and considerable political momentum to ensure that those sentenced to death are actually executed. Yet the death penalty remains troubling and controversial for many people. The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy.Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time. Focused more on theory than on advocacy, these bracing essays open up new questions for scholars and citizens: What is the relationship of the death penalty to the maintenance of political sovereignty? In what ways does the death penalty resemble and enable other forms of law's violence? How is capital punishment portrayed in popular culture? How does capital punishment express the new politics of crime, organize positions in the "culture war," and affect the structure of American values? This book is a timely examination of a vitally important topic: the impact of state killing on our law, our politics, and our cultural life.
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HV8699.U5
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