From noose to needle [[electronic resource] ] : capital punishment and the late liberal state / / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
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| Autore: |
Kaufman-Osborn Timothy V (Timothy Vance), <1953->
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| Titolo: |
From noose to needle [[electronic resource] ] : capital punishment and the late liberal state / / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.66/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Capital punishment - United States |
| Capital punishment - Political aspects | |
| Hanging - United States | |
| Lethal injection (Execution) - United States | |
| Liberalism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | What is a death sentence? -- John Locke's noose -- The metaphysics of the hangman -- Silencing the voice of pain -- Womanhood unsexed on the gallows -- Needling the sovereign. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From noose to needle |
| ISBN: | 1-282-42313-4 |
| 9786612423130 | |
| 0-472-02290-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459306203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Law, meaning, and violence.