TY - BOOK ID - 137807867 TI - Capital Defense : Inside the Lives of America's Death Penalty Lawyers AU - Gould, Jon B. AU - Barak, Maya Pagni PY - 2019 SN - 1479806978 PB - New York : Baltimore, Md. : New York University Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Defense (Criminal procedure) KW - Criminal defense lawyers KW - Capital punishment KW - United States. KW - PTSD. KW - attorney-client relations. KW - capital punishment. KW - cause lawyers. KW - community of practice. KW - coping strategies. KW - criminal defense. KW - criminal justice system. KW - defense lawyers. KW - discrimination. KW - emotional work. KW - feminization. KW - gendered work. KW - identity. KW - insiders versus outsiders. KW - intersectionality. KW - legal profession. KW - mitigation investigation. KW - morality. KW - sociology of law. KW - trauma. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137807867 AB - What motivates someone to make a career out of defending some of the worst suspected killers of our time? In 'Capital Defense', Jon B. Gould and Maya Pagni Barak give us a glimpse into the lives of lawyers who choose to work in the darkest corner of our criminal justice system: death penalty cases. Based on in-depth personal interviews with a cross-section of the nation's top capital defense teams, the book explores the unusual few who voluntarily represent society's "worst of the worst." With a compassionate and careful eye, Gould and Barak chronicle the experiences of American lawyers, who-like soldiers or surgeons-operate under the highest of stakes, where verdicts have the power to either "take death off the table" or put clients on "the conveyor belt towards death." These lawyers are a rare breed in a field that is otherwise seen as dirty work and in a system that is overburdened, under-resourced, and overshadowed by social, cultural, and political pressures. Examining the ugliest side of our criminal justice system, 'Capital Defense' offers an up-close perspective on the capital litigation process and its impact on the people who participate in it. ER -