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Confronting the death penalty : how language influences jurors in capital cases / Robin Conley.
LIBRA KF9227.C2 C65 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conley Riner, Robin, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in language and law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- United States.
- Jury--United States.
- Jury.
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction : that's the hardest thing I've ever had to do
- Doing death in Texas : studying jurors in the death penalty state
- I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law : emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions
- Facing death : empathy, emotion, and embodied actions in jurors' decisions
- Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants
- Agents of the state : Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions
- Conclusions : linguistic dehumanization and democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199334162
- 0199334161
- OCLC:
- 905419490
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