TY - BOOK ID - 30476929 TI - Is the death penalty dying? PY - 2008 SN - 1281145106 9786611145101 1849505608 0080557287 9781849505604 0762314672 9780080557281 9780762314676 9781281145109 PB - Amsterdam Oxford Elsevier JAI DB - UniCat KW - Capital punishment. KW - Punishment. KW - Penalties (Criminal law) KW - Penology KW - Abolition of capital punishment KW - Death penalty KW - Death sentence KW - Corrections KW - Impunity KW - Retribution KW - Criminal law KW - Punishment KW - Executions and executioners KW - Criminal law. Criminal procedure KW - United States KW - Criminal law & procedure. KW - Penology & punishment. KW - Law KW - Political Science KW - Criminal Law KW - General. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30476929 AB - This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of the death penalty in the United States, its past, and its trajectory for the future. Taken together, the work published in this volume exemplifies the kind exciting and innovative work now being done by legal scholars from different disciplines.This is a special issue examining the death penalty in the US. It draws together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law. ER -