1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008380390403321

Autore

Kay, David A.

Titolo

Environmental Protection : The International Dimension / David A. Kay, Harold K. Jacobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey : Allanheld Osmun Publishers, 1983

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 340 p. : 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Jacobson, Harold K.

Locazione

DEC

Collocazione

DI 5/716

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790474703321

Autore

Kaplan Paul <1968->

Titolo

Murder stories [[electronic resource] ] : ideological narratives in capital punishment / / Paul Kaplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

1-280-65906-8

9786613635990

0-7391-7171-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Issues in crime & justice

Disciplina

364.660973

Soggetti

Capital punishment - United States

Murder - United States

Trials - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Capital Punishment Conflicts, Narrativity, Hegemony, and Resistance; Chapter 02. The American Creed and American Capital Punishment; Chapter 03. Death Especially Deregulated; Chapter 04. The American Creed in Prosecutor and Defender Narratives; Chapter 05. Forgetting the Future; Chapter 06. Facts and Furies; Epilogue; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Murder Stories takes on the difficult question of American retention of capital punishment by investigating the elusive role of ideology in the law. As such it is a prime example of contemporary scholarship on the death penalty and law & society.