Summary:

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 the historical and theoretical
assumptions that have underpinned the discussion of capital
punishment in the United States today. At various times the death
penalty has been portrayed as an anachronism, an inheritance, or an
innovation, with little reflection on the consequences that flow from
the choice of words. This volume represents an effort to restore the
sense of capital punishment as a question caught up in history.
Edited by leading scholars of crime and justice, these original
essays pursue different strategies for unsettling the usual terms of
the debate. In particular, the authors use comparative and historical
investigations of both Europe and America in order to cast fresh
light on familiar questions about the meaning of capital punishment.
This volume is essential reading for understanding the death penalty
in America.Contributors: David Garland, Douglas Hay, Randall McGowen,
Michael Meranze, Rebecca McLennan, and Jonathan Simon.

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Dewey Class: 364.660973 -- Criminology

Book Details:

Physical Description: 6.1"x9.1"x0.8"; 1.0 lb; 256 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2011-01-25

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