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Title

The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Sarat, Austin.
• Boulanger, Christian.

Description

xiv, 342 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Capital punishment > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 05-8431

ISBN

• 0804752338 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804752346 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005003157

OCLC

57652253

Title

The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Sarat, Austin.

Boulanger, Christian.

Research Call Number

JFE 05-8431