Is the Death Penalty Dying? : European and American Perspectives
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521763517
ISBN-13
9780521763516
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2011
Print length
342 Pages
Weight
598 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.80 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Ethical issues: capital punishmentEthical issues: capital punishmentComparative politicsComparative lawLaw & societyLaw and society, sociology of lawInternational human rights lawPublic international law: human rightsCriminal justice lawSentencing & punishmentSentencing and punishment
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This book provides an analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to the present. It assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations.
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.
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