Paul Kaplan

Murder Stories

Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment

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Produktbeschreibung

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 and society.

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Produktdetails

• Issues in Crime and Justice
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780739188163
• ISBN-10: 073918816X
• Artikelnr.: 39339294

Autorenporträt

Paul Kaplan is associate professor in the Program in Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University.  He received his Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Prior to entering academics, Dr. Kaplan worked as a mitigation investigator on capital cases in California.  His primary research area is capital punishment, but he also works on projects involving socio-legal theory, cultural criminology, and comparative law. His work has appeared in journals such as the Law & Society Review, Theoretical Criminology, and Law & Social Inquiry.  

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Chapter 1: Capital Punishment Conflicts, Narrativity, Hegemony,
and Resistance Chapter 2: The American Creed and American Capital
Punishment Chapter 3: Death Especially Deregulated Chapter 4: The American
Creed in Prosecutor and Defender Narratives Chapter 5: Forgetting the
Future: Cause Lawyering and the Work of California Capital Trial Defenders
Chapter 6: Facts and Furies: The Antinomies of Facts, Law, and Retribution
in the Work of Capital Prosecutors Epilogue