Ethical issues: capital punishment books

205 books were found.

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice...

Author: James R. Acker
ISBN: 9780415639439
Format: Hardback
$347.00

The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather...  Read More >>

Silent Sisters: An Ethnography Of Homeless Women

Silent Sisters: An Ethnography Of Homeless Women

Author: Betty G. Russell
ISBN: 9780415763264
Format: Paperback
$62.07

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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty

Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's...

Author: Austin Sarat
ISBN: 9780804789165
Format: Hardback
$45.95

"Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal...

Author: Lill Scherdin
ISBN: 9781409457190
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience,...

Author: Lizzie Seal
ISBN: 9780415622448
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study of the World

Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study...

Author: Carsten Anckar
ISBN: 9780415860116
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Death Penalty, Volume I

The Death Penalty, Volume I

Author: Jacques Derrida (?cole Pratique des Hautes-?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) ,  Peggy Kamuf
ISBN: 9780226144320
Format: Hardback
$67.95

While much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively,...  Read More >>

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate Abolition?

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate...

Author: Mai Sato
ISBN: 9783658006778
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and trust-based attitudinal...  Read More >>

The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy

The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations...

Author: Wesley Kendall ,  Joseph M. Siracusa
ISBN: 9781442224346
Format: Hardback
$115.95

The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy analyzes the institutional response to specific forms of foreign intervention...  Read More >>

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America...

Author: Clive Stafford Smith
ISBN: 9780099572190
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Shortlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. THE STORY CONTINUES: TWO NEW CHAPTERS FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION In 1986,...  Read More >>

Hanged at Durham

Hanged at Durham

Author: Steve Fielding
ISBN: 9780750947503
Format: Paperback
$39.95

For decades the walls of Durham Gaol have contained some of the country's most infamous criminals. Until hanging...  Read More >>

The Violence of Victimhood

The Violence of Victimhood

Author: Diane Enns (UG Program Director, Ryerson University, Ontario)
ISBN: 9780271052434
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict,...  Read More >>

Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases

Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark...

Author: Martin Clancy ,  Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9781616146481
Format: Hardback
$43.99

In 1969, America's Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional. But the Court's resolve soon...  Read More >>

Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty

Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to...

Author: Vicki Schieber ,  Trudy D. Conway
ISBN: 9780814635087
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty comprehensively explores the Catholic stance...  Read More >>

The Case for Capital Punishment

The Case for Capital Punishment

Author: Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr.
ISBN: 9780761860358
Format: Paperback
$50.95

Does the prospect of possible execution save lives by deterring the act of murder? Heilbrun presents evidence concerning...  Read More >>

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an...

Author: David Garland
ISBN: 9780674066106
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America's political institutions...  Read More >>

About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row

About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row

Author: Peter Pringle
ISBN: 9781845887605
Format: Paperback
$37.99

On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: ‘Peter Pringle, for...  Read More >>

Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure

Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure...

Author: Jody Lyneé Madeira ,  Bernard Wasow
ISBN: 9780814796108
Format: Hardback
$163.00

Demonstrates the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been...  Read More >>

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Author: National Research Council ,  Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
ISBN: 9780309254168
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect...  Read More >>

The Violence of Victimhood

The Violence of Victimhood

Author: Diane Enns (UG Program Director, Ryerson University, Ontario)
ISBN: 9780271052427
Format: Hardback
$155.00

Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict,...  Read More >>

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