Murder stories [electronic resource] : ideological narratives in capital punishment / Paul Kaplan.

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Paul, 1968-

Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Series:

Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Issues in crime & justice

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (219 p.)

Subjects:

Capital punishment -- United States.
Murder -- United States.
Trials -- United States.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

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 & society.

Contents:

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Capital Punishment Conflicts, Narrativity, Hegemony, and Resistance; Chapter 02. The American Creed and American Capital Punishment; Chapter 03. Death Especially Deregulated; Chapter 04. The American Creed in Prosecutor and Defender Narratives; Chapter 05. Forgetting the Future; Chapter 06. Facts and Furies; Epilogue; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-65906-8
9786613635990
0-7391-7171-2

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