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245 0 0 _aIs the death penalty dying?
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Austin Sarat.
260 _aAmsterdam ;
_aOxford :
_bElsevier JAI,
_c2008.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 218 p.)
490 1 _aStudies in law, politics, and society ;
_vv. 42, special issue
505 0 _aEvolutionary history: the changing purposes for capital punishment / Beau Breslin, John J.P. Howley and Molly Appel -- The heart has its reasons: examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes -- Rule of law abolitionism / Benjamin S. Yost -- Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty / Leigh B. Bienen -- Facts and furies: the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors / Paul J. Kaplan -- The judicial use of international and foreign law in death penalty cases: a poisoned chalice? / Bharat Malkani -- Death, unraveled / Jesse Cheng.
520 _aThis volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of the death penalty in the United States, its past, and its trajectory for the future. Taken together, the work published in this volume exemplifies the kind exciting and innovative work now being done by legal scholars from different disciplines.This is a special issue examining the death penalty in the US. It draws together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCapital punishment.
650 7 _aCriminal law & procedure.
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650 7 _aPenology & punishment.
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650 7 _aLaw
_xCriminal Law
_xGeneral.
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650 7 _aPolitical Science
_xGeneral.
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700 1 _aSarat, Austin.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tIs the death penalty dying?.
_dAmsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008
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830 0 _aStudies in law, politics, and society ;
_vv. 42, special issue.
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