America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present
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 tool of punishment. The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in our public life and left an indelible imprint on our politics and culture. It has also provoked intense scholarly debate, much of it devoted to explaining the roots of American exceptionalism.America's Death Penalty takes a different approach to the issue by examining th…
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Weitere Autoren: McGowen, Randall (Hrsg.) / Meranze, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8147-3267-0
- EAN: 9780814732670
- Produktnummer: 7481944
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 353 g
- Gewicht: 353
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David Garland is Professor of Sociology and Law at New York University. He is the author of Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition.
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