Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment e-bog
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How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits o...
E-bog
280,67 DKK
Forlag
Stanford University Press
Udgivet
27 maj 2005
Længde
360 sider
Genrer
Penology and punishment
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780804767712
How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "e;cultural lives"e;-past and present-of the state's ultimate sanction. They undertake this "e;cultural voyage"e; comparatively-examining the dynamics of the death penalty in Mexico, the United States, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea-arguing that we need to look beyond the United States to see how capital punishment "e;lives"e; or "e;dies"e; in the rest of the world, how images of state killing are produced and consumed elsewhere, and how they are reflected, back and forth, in the emerging international judicial and political discourse on the penalty of death and its abolition. Contributors: Sangmin Bae Christian Boulanger Julia Eckert Agata Fijalkowski Evi GirlingVirgil K.Y. Ho David T. Johnson Botagoz Kassymbekova Shai LaviJrgen Martschukat Alfred Oehlers Judith RandleJudith Mendelsohn RoodAustin Sarat Patrick TimmonsNicole Tarulevicz Louise Tyler