America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present Contributor(s): Garland, David (Editor), McGowen, Randall (Editor), Meranze, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814732666 ISBN-13: 9780814732663 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Law | Criminal Law - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 364.660 |
LCCN: 2010033742 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 241 pages |
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Publisher Description: Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate tool of punishment. The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in our public life and left an indelible imprint on our politics and culture. It has also provoked intense scholarly debate, much of it devoted to explaining the roots of American exceptionalism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garland, David: - David Garland is Professor of Sociology and Law at New York University. He is the author of Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. McGowen, Randall: -Randall McGowen is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and co-author of The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London. Meranze, Michael: -Michael Meranze is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Laboratories of Virtue. |