2010, ISBN: 9780674057234

[ED: hardcover], [PU: Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010], very good dust-jacket, very good gray and white cloth. GARLAND, DAVID. Peculiar institution: Ame… Mehr…

[ED: hardcover], [PU: Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010], very good dust-jacket, very good gray and white cloth. GARLAND, DAVID. Peculiar institution: America's death penalty in an age of abolition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, , . This book describes and explains the institution of capital punishment in the United States, and discusses its relationship to American society. For many Europeans, the persistence of America's death penalty is a stark reminder of American otherness. The practice of state killing is an archaic relic, a hollow symbol that accomplishes nothing but reflects a puritanical, punitive culture, bloodthirsty in its pursuit of retribution. In debating capital punishment, the usual rhetoric points to America's deviance from the western norm: civilized abolition and barbaric retention; 'us' and 'them'. This new study by a leading social thinker sweeps aside the familiar story and offers a compelling interpretation of the culture of American punishment. It shows that the same forces that led to the death penalty's abolition in Europe once made America a pioneer of reform. That democracy and civilization are not the enemies of capital punishment, though liberalism and humanitarianism are. Making sense of today's differences requires a better understanding of American society and its punishments than the standard rhetoric allows. Taking us deep inside the world of capital punishment, the book offers a detailed picture of a peculiar institution, its cultural meaning and symbolic force for supporters and abolitionists, its place in the landscape of American politics and attitudes to crime, its constitutional status and the legal struggles that define it. Understanding the death penalty requires that we understand how American society is put together, the legacy of racial violence, the structures of social power, and the commitment to radical, local majority rule. Shattering current stereotypes, the book forces us to rethink our understanding of the politics of death and of punishment in America and beyond. - CONTENTS: The exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in America -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Discourse and death. ISBN 9780674057234, US, [SC: 22.00], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 769g], Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<

2010, ISBN: 9780674057234

[ED: hardcover], [PU: Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010], very good dust-jacket, very good gray and white cloth. GARLAND, DAVID. Peculiar institution: Ame… Mehr…

[ED: hardcover], [PU: Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010], very good dust-jacket, very good gray and white cloth. GARLAND, DAVID. Peculiar institution: America's death penalty in an age of abolition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, , . This book describes and explains the institution of capital punishment in the United States, and discusses its relationship to American society. For many Europeans, the persistence of America's death penalty is a stark reminder of American otherness. The practice of state killing is an archaic relic, a hollow symbol that accomplishes nothing but reflects a puritanical, punitive culture, bloodthirsty in its pursuit of retribution. In debating capital punishment, the usual rhetoric points to America's deviance from the western norm: civilized abolition and barbaric retention 'us' and 'them'. This new study by a leading social thinker sweeps aside the familiar story and offers a compelling interpretation of the culture of American punishment. It shows that the same forces that led to the death penalty's abolition in Europe once made America a pioneer of reform. That democracy and civilization are not the enemies of capital punishment, though liberalism and humanitarianism are. Making sense of today's differences requires a better understanding of American society and its punishments than the standard rhetoric allows. Taking us deep inside the world of capital punishment, the book offers a detailed picture of a peculiar institution, its cultural meaning and symbolic force for supporters and abolitionists, its place in the landscape of American politics and attitudes to crime, its constitutional status and the legal struggles that define it. Understanding the death penalty requires that we understand how American society is put together, the legacy of racial violence, the structures of social power, and the commitment to radical, local majority rule. Shattering current stereotypes, the book forces us to rethink our understanding of the politics of death and of punishment in America and beyond. - CONTENTS: The exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in America -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Discourse and death. ISBN 9780674057234, US, [SC: 20.50], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 769g], Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<

2010, ISBN: 0674057236

[EAN: 9780674057234], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Belknap Press], May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780674057234], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Belknap Press], May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwills nonprofit mission!, Books<