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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Franklin E Zimring |
| ISBN: | 0195152360 9780195152364 0195178203 9780195178203 |
| OCLC Number: | 50334054 |
| Awards: | Winner of An Economist 2003 Book of the Year. |
| Description: | ix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Studies in crime and public policy. |
| Responsibility: | Franklin E. Zimring. |
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"Frank Zimring's new book makes a major contribution to understanding the present situation of the death penalty in the United States and to predicting what lies ahead. Central to his analysis is his judgment that a 'fundamental value conflict' lies at the root of the struggle: Will America's frontier 'vigilante values' that support our death penalty practices survive their collision with our attachment to 'due process' values? Written in his characteristicallylively style, this provocative and completely original work has much to teach both defenders and opponents of capital punishment."-Hugo Adam Bedau, author of The Death Penalty in America "Frank Zimring's book will revolutionize how we understand the death penalty in the United States. Why, Zimring asks, does capital punishment persist in America, almost uniquely among established democracies, despite entrenched unfairness and the virtual inevitability of error? His original and provocative answer is America's vigilante tradition. Like vigilante action, the death penalty suffers from the biases of the dominant social group and the unwarrantedassumption that the guilty have been correctly identified. Highlighting this uncomfortable comparison offers a promising new approach for those committed to ending this inhumane institution of American life."-Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch "Zimring does an great public service in examining the United States' retention of a primitive and brutal punishment long after it was abandoned by other developed nations. This book will help insure that the inevitable abandonment of capital punishment by the United States is not delayed for another generation."-Stephen Bright Director, Southern Center for Human Rights "Zimring is doing more than making a case for or against; he's presenting an impressive array of facts, suggesting that the U.S. would be 'a better nation' if it exorcised those vigilante values."-Los Angeles Times Book Review "Thought-provoking, well-founded ammunition for the endless debate over capital punishment."-Kirkus Reviews "A thought provoking and genuinley original book which deserves to become a classic"-The Economist 31 May 2003 Read more...
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