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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robin ConleyPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 11.50cm Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9780199334162ISBN 10: 0199334161 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 10 December 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Table of Contents 1 Introduction: ""That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do"" 2 Doing Death in Texas: Studying jurors in ""the death penalty state"" 3 ""I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law"": Emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions 4 Facing death: Empathy, emotion and embodied actions in jurors' decisions 5 Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants 6 Agents of the state: Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions 7 Conclusions: Linguistic dehumanization and democracy"ReviewsThere is no doubt that profound lessons from this book can shed new light on the implementation and management of capital pubishment in America. -- Zhonghua Wu, Journal of Language and Politics There is no doubt that profound lessons from this book can shed new light on the implementation and management of capital pubishment in America. * Zhonghua Wu, Journal of Language and Politics * Author InformationRobin Conley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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