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Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9780195066630
This study examines the conflict over capital punishment and the transformation of American culture between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:859652028
Author : Riverside Louis P. Masur Professor of History University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198021582
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments, primarily confinement in penitentiaries and private executions. The transition, guided by a reconceptualization of the causes of crime, the nature of authority, and the purposes of punishment, embodied the triumph of new sensibilities and the reconstitution of cultural values throughout the Western world. This study examines the conflict over capital punishment in the United States and the way it transformed American culture between the Revolution and the Civil War. Relating the gradual shift in rituals of punishment and attitudes toward discipline to the emergence of a middle class culture that valued internal restraints and private punishments, Masur traces the changing configuration of American criminal justice. He examines the design of execution day in the Revolutionary era as a spectacle of civil and religious order, the origins of organized opposition to the death penalty and the invention of the penitentiary, the creation of private executions, reform organizations' commitment to social activism, and the competing visions of humanity and society lodged at the core of the debate over capital punishment. A fascinating and thoughtful look at a topic that remains of burning interest today, Rites of Execution will attract a wide range of scholarly and general readers.
Author : James L. Roark,Marcus,Louis P. Masur,Blight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312399294
Author : Austin Sarat,Christian Boulanger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804752346
How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? In this volume the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty we need to know more about the “cultural lives”—past and present—of the state’s ultimate sanction.
Author : Bharat Malkani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317054429
It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country’s history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices’ respective abolitionist movements. The book explains how the historical and conceptual links between slavery and capital punishment have both helped and hindered efforts to end capital punishment. The comparative study also sheds light on the nature of such efforts, and offers lessons for how death penalty abolitionism should proceed in future. Using the history of slavery and abolition, it is argued that anti-death penalty efforts should be premised on the ideologies of the radical slavery abolitionists.
Author : James A. Henretta,David W. Blight,Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312404549
Author : John Bessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108845571
This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world's understanding of torture.
Author : Howard W. Allen,Jerome M. Clubb
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791478349
Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.
Author : Hugo Adam Bedau,Paul G. Cassell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199741007
When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and philosophers--to debate the death penalty in a spirit of open inquiry and civil discussion. Here, as the contributors present their reasons for or against capital punishment, the multiple facets of the issue are revealed in clear and thought-provoking detail. Is the death penalty a viable deterrent to future crimes? Does the imposition of lesser penalties, such as life imprisonment, truly serve justice in cases of the worst offences? Does the legal system discriminate against poor or minority defendants? Is the possibility of executing innocent persons sufficient grounds for abolition? In confronting such questions and making their arguments, the contributors marshal an impressive array of evidence, both statistical and from their own experiences working on death penalty cases. The book also includes the text of Governor George Ryan's March 2002 speech in which he explained why he had commuted the sentences of all prisoners on Illinois's death row. By representing the viewpoints of experts who face the vexing questions about capital punishment on a daily basis, Debating the Death Penalty makes a vital contribution to a more nuanced understanding of the moral and legal problems underlying this controversy.
Author : Lizzie Seal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136250729
Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed – it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion. In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment. Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice were significant to capital punishment’s increasingly fraught nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice. The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and how people negotiate memories of the death penalty. Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday life and it is the only text on this era to place public and popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists, sociologists and socio-legal scholars.
Author : Stephen J. Hartnett
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609173456
This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan. In contrast to the macro-historical overview presented in volume 1, volume 2 provides micro-historical case studies, using these debates as springboards into the discussion of the death penalty in America at large. Incorporating a wide range of sources, including political poems, newspaper editorials, and warring manifestos, this second volume highlights a variety of perspectives, thus demonstrating the centrality of public debates about crime, violence, and punishment to the history of American democracy. Hartnett’s insightful assessment bears witness to a complex national discussion about the political, metaphysical, and cultural significance of the death penalty.
Author : Peter Hodgkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351887472
This volume provides analyses of a range of subjects and issues in the death penalty debate, from medicine to the media. The essays address in particular the personal complexities of those involved, a fundamental part of the subject usually overridden by the theoretical and legal aspects of the debate. The unique personal vantage offered by this volume makes it essential reading for anyone interested in going beyond the removed theoretical understanding of the death penalty, to better comprehending its fundamental humanity. Additionally, the international range of the analysis, enabling disaggregation of country specific motivations, ensures the complexities of the death penalty are also considered from a global perspective.
Author : Steven Anderson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030537678
This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author illuminates all aspects of the penalty, from shortcomings in execution technique, to the behaviour of the dying criminal, and the antics of the scaffold crowd. Mercy rates, execution numbers, and capital crimes are explored alongside the transition from public to private executions and the push to abolish the death penalty completely. Notions of culture and communication freely pollinate within a conceptual framework of penal change that explains the many transformations the death penalty underwent. A vast array of sources are assembled into one compelling argument that shows how the ‘lesson’ of the gallows was to be safeguarded, refined, and improved at all costs. This concise and engaging work will be a lasting resource for students, scholars, and general readers who want an in-depth understanding of a long feared punishment. Dr. Steven Anderson is a Visiting Research Fellow in the History Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia. His academic research explores the role of capital punishment in the Australian colonies by situating developments in these jurisdictions within global contexts and conceptual debates.
Author : A. Hammel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780230277366
Examining the successful movements to abolish capital punishment in the UK, France, and Germany, this book examines the similarities in the social structure and political strategies of abolition movements in all three countries. An in-depth comparative analysis with other countries assesses chances of success of abolition elsewhere.