Killing State
Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture
"...an important and wide ranging cross section of current debate about the death penalty" Christopher Bennett, Comtemporary Political Theory 2003, 2.
Brings together the work of writers to discuss the meaning of execution in American law and culture. This book provides historical background on the death penalty and brings together arguments about the morality of capital punishment with arguments about its meaning. Les mer
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Brings together the work of writers to discuss the meaning of execution in American law and culture. This book provides historical background on the death penalty and brings together arguments about the morality of capital punishment with arguments about its meaning. It also considers whether death penalty is the very cause of violence.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780195146028
- Utgivelsesår
- 2001
- Format
- 24 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"...an important and wide ranging cross section of current debate about the death penalty" Christopher Bennett, Comtemporary Political Theory 2003, 2.
"...fruitful reading for anyone interseted in the death penalty, state violence or the fole of punishment in our societies more generally" Christopher Bennett, Comtemporary Political Theory 2003, 2.
«The papers in this collection represent an important and wide-ranging cross-section of current debate about the death penalty. These essays would make fruitful reading for anyone interested in the death penalty, state violence or the role of punishment in our societies more generally. this is a useful collection that will interest those working on many different aspects of state violence.»
Contemporary Political Theory 2001, 1.
«committed collection of essays»
Contemporary Review
«Austin Sarat has produced a valuable volume which provides a range of perspectives on institutionalized state violence.»
Richard Wilson, Anthropological Theory, 1:1
«This collection belongs in all libraries.»
Choice
«This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment ... these essays ... will keep us thinking well into the next century.»
Bimonthly Review of Law Books