| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The contradictions of American capital punishment/ Franklin E. Zimring. |
| Author: |
Zimring, Franklin E. |
| Published: |
Oxford ;Oxford University Press, : 2003., |
| Description: |
ix, 258 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
Studies in crime and public policy |
| [NT 15003449]: |
1. Divergent trends. The peculiar present of American capital punishment -- More than a trend : abolition in the developed nations -- The symbolic transformation of American capital punishment -- 2. Explaining the American difference. Federalism and its discontents -- The vigilante tradition and modern executions -- The consequences of contradictory values -- 3. Capital punishment in the American future. The no-win 1990s -- The beginning of the end -- Appendix A. Statistical materials on lynchings and executions -- Appendix B. Reported frequencies of national death penalty policy, 1980 to 2001 -- Appendix C. Death row and execution statistics -- Appendix D. New survey analysis materials -- Appendix E. Justified killings by citizens and police, by state -- Appendix F. Review of death penalty exoneration data from the Death Penalty Information Center. |
| Subject: |
Capital punishment - United States. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120964An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0195184866 (electronic bk.) |