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Murder stories : ideological narratives in capital punishment / Paul Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Paul, 1968-
- Series:
- Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
- Issues in crime & justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Murder--United States.
- Murder.
- Trials--United States.
- Trials.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2633-3
- 979-88-8188-597-7
- 1-280-65906-8
- 9786613635990
- 0-7391-7171-2
- OCLC:
- 845245602
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