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Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / David Garland.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.Description: 417 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674057234 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.660973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8699.U5 .G36 2010
Contents:
Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Epilogue : discourse and death.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV8699 .U5 .G36 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001142743

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Epilogue : discourse and death.

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