Title:
The cultural lives of capital punishment comparative perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger.
Main Entry:
Sarat, Austin.
Boulanger, Christian.
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Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Publication Date:
2005.
Publication Place:
Stanford, Calif. :
ISBN:
0804752338 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804752346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Capital punishment -- Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing / Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization / Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 / The cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States / European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States / Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film / Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse / Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands / Death and the nation : state killing in India / Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge / The Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority / The death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience / What is wrong with capital punishment? : official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China / Virgil K. Y. Ho -- Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore / Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz -- Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo / Sangmin Bae -- Index.
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