LEADER 03740nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910450067303321 005 20211005075431.0 010 $a0-19-518486-6 010 $a1-280-42840-6 010 $a0-19-803479-2 010 $a1-60256-543-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000029185 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000130057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12045696 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080614 035 $a(PQKB)10495998 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278222 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211190 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278222 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243085 035 $a(PQKB)11210115 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL272857 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10085451 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL42840 035 $a(OCoLC)476012923 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2012814 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2012814 035 $a(OCoLC)958550219 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000029185 100 $a20020803d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe contradictions of American capital punishment$b[electronic resource] /$fFranklin E. Zimring 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $ax, 258 p. $cill 225 1 $aStudies in crime and public policy 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-515236-0 311 $a0-19-517820-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index. 330 $aWhy does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in our country. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation's highest legal principles of fairness and due process. It sets us increasingly apart from our allies and indeed is regarded by European nations as a barbaric and particularly egregious form of American exceptionalism. On the other hand, the death penalty represents a deeply held American belief in violent social justice that sees the hangman as an agent of local control and safeguard of community values. Zimring uncovers the most troubling symptom of this attraction to vigilante justice in the lynch mob. He shows that the great majority of executions in recent decades have occurred in precisely those Southern states where lynchings were most common a hundred years ago. It is this legacy, Zimring suggests, that constitutes both the distinctive appeal of the death penalty in the United States and one of the most compelling reasons for abolishing it. Impeccably researched and engagingly written, Contradictions in American Capital Punishment casts a clear new light on America's long and troubled embrace of the death penalty. 410 0$aStudies in crime and public policy. 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States 606 $aPunishment$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapital punishment 615 0$aPunishment 676 $a364.33/0973 700 $aZimring$b Franklin E$0472956 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450067303321 996 $aContradictions of American capital punishment$923042 997 $aUNINA