Austin Sarat The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Cultural Lives of Capital PunishmentCondition: NewSubtitle: Comparative PerspectivesISBN-10: 0804752346EAN: 9780804752343ISBN: 9780804752343Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/27/2005Description: 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 "cultural lives"—past and present—of the state’s ultimate sanction. They undertake this “cultural voyage” 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 “lives” or “dies” 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 Girling Virgil K.Y. Ho David T. Johnson Botagoz Kassymbekova Shai Lavi Jürgen Martschukat Alfred Oehlers Judith Randle Judith Mendelsohn Rood Austin Sarat Patrick Timmons Nicole Tarulevicz Louise Tyler Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 476gContributor: Austin Sarat (Edited by), Christian Boulanger (Edited by)Author: Austin SaratGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Cultural Lives of LawTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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