The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives

Author(s)

• Sarat, Austin
• Boulanger, Christian

Bibliographic Information

The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives

edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger

（The cultural lives of law）

Stanford University Press, 2005

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing / Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat
• Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization / Jürgen Martschukat
• Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 / Patrick Timmons
• The cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States / Judith Randle
• European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States / Evi Girling
• Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film / Louise Tyler
• Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse / Agata Fijalkowski
• Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands / Botagoz Kassymbekova
• Death and the nation : state killing in India / Julia Eckert
• Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge / Shai J. Lavi
• The Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority / Judith Mendelsohn Rood
• The death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience / David T. Johnson
• 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

Details

• NCID: BA74416880
• ISBN:
  • 0804752346
  • 9780804752336
• LCCN: 2005003157
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 342 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV8694
  • DC22 : 364.66
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Capital punishment -- Cross-cultural studies
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA59830148