The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives

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Main Authors: Boulanger, Christian (Author), Sarat, Austin (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press , 2005
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245 0 4 |a The cultural lives of capital punishment :   |b comparative perspectives   |c edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger 
260 |a Stanford, Calif :   |b Stanford University Press ,   |c 2005 
300 |a xiv, 342 p. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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 / Ju?rgen 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 
650 0 |a Capital punishment   |x Cross-cultural studies 
700 1 |a Boulanger, Christian ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Sarat, Austin ,   |e author 
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