RT Book
T1 Is the death penalty dying?: European and American perspectives
A2 Sarat, Austin 1947-
A2 Martschukat, Jürgen
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/634670158
AB "Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition"--
AB "Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition"--
NO ***Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke.***Unchanged reprints that were published later are included here.***
NO Previous ed.: Amsterdam; London: Elsevier JAI, 2008. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN HV8699.E85
SN 9780521763516
K1 Capital Punishment : Europe
K1 Capital Punishment : United States
K1 Capital punishment
K1 Capital punishment : United States
K1 Capital punishment : Europe
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