The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives Paperback / softback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Austin Sarat
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- Title The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives
- Author Austin Sarat
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 2005-05-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780804752343
- ISBN 9780804752343 / 0804752346
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.08 x 0.8 in (23.06 x 15.44 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Capital punishment
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005003157
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.66
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How do the ways we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty?
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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 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
Jurgen Martschukat
Alfred Oehlers
Judith Randle
Judith Mendelsohn Rood
Austin Sarat
Patrick Timmons
Nicole Tarulevicz
Louise Tyler
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
Jurgen Martschukat
Alfred Oehlers
Judith Randle
Judith Mendelsohn Rood
Austin Sarat
Patrick Timmons
Nicole Tarulevicz
Louise Tyler