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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.
Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners --- Law --- General and Others --- Capital punishment - Europe --- Capital punishment - United States
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This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty in America. It follows up on Bedau's "Death Penalty in America", third edition. It includes new readings, updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and contributions to the debate over capital punishment.
Capital punishment --- Peine de mort --- United States --- Droit constitutionnel --- Droit pénal --- Peines --- États-Unis --- Capital punishment - United States --- Social problems --- Human rights --- Criminology. Victimology --- United States of America
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Capital punishment --- Discrimination in capital punishment --- Decentralization in government --- Power (Social sciences) --- History --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Race discrimination in capital punishment --- Centralization in government --- Devolution in government --- Government centralization --- Government decentralization --- Government devolution --- Central-local government relations --- Federal government --- Local government --- Public administration --- Capital punishment - United States - History --- Discrimination in capital punishment - United States - History --- Decentralization in government - United States - History --- Power (Social sciences) - United States - History --- Peine de mort --- Discrimination --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Histoire --- États-Unis
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The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain this unprecedented reliance on mass imprisonment? Throughout American history, crime and punishment have been central features of American political development. This 2006 book examines the development of four key movements that mediated the construction of the carceral state in important ways: the victims' movement, the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and opponents of the death penalty. This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements and interest groups within the constraints of larger institutional structures and historical developments that distinguish the United States from other Western countries.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT -- 343.81 --- CIVIL RIGHTS -- 343.81 --- GOVERNMENT POLICY -- 343.81 --- Capital punishment --- Imprisonment --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- Government policy --- Civil rights --- Civil rights. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Inmates --- Government --- History, Political --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Prisons - United States. --- Imprisonment - Government policy - United States. --- Capital punishment - United States. --- Prisoners - United States - Civil rights.
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