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03312aam a2200361 a 4500 001 D712FB627A2D11E1ADFB86CF6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120330010108 008 100831s2011 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010037115 020 $a 0511993277 (e-book) 020 $a 9780511993275 (e-book) 020 $a 0521763517 (hardbound) 020 $a 9780521763516 (hardbound) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BWX $d IUL $d UCDLL $d UKMGB $d MIX $d TULIB $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV8699.E85 $b I82 2011 245 0 $a Is the death penalty dying? : $b European and American perspectives / $c edited by Austin Sarat, JuÌrgen Martschukat. 260 $a Cambridge [U.K.] ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2011. 300 $a xi, 329 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"--Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction : Transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment : national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition -- The green, green grass of home : capital punishment and the penal system from a long-term perspective -- Did anyone die here? : legal personalities, the supermax, and the politics of abolition -- Capital punishment as homeowners insurance : the rise of the homeowner citizen and the fate of ultimate sanctions in both Europe and the United States -- The witnessing of judgment : between error, mercy, and vindictiveness -- Unframing the death penalty : transatlantic discourse on the possibility of abolition and the execution of Saddam Hussein -- Executions and the debate about abolition in France and in the United States -- Civilized rebels : death-penalty abolition in Europe as cause, mark of distinction, and political strategy -- The death of dignity -- Sovereignty and the unnecessary penalty of death : European and United States perspectives -- European policy on the death penalty -- The long shadow of the death penalty : mass incarceration, capital punishment, and penal policy in the United States. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z Europe. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z United States. 700 1 $a Sarat, Austin. 700 1 $a Martschukat, JuÌrgen. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502030303.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180120061146.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20120330010452.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D712FB627A2D11E1ADFB86CF6AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search