00000cmm a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862054541 Buklod 20170221172233.0 g||| | || || ta 170221s2011 enk u eng d 9780511974380 (ebook) (iLib)UPBAG-00023398269 DLC DML BAG rda eng ML-ebook Is the death penalty dying? [electronic resource] European and American perspectives by Austin Sarat, Jürgen Martschukat, editors. Cambridge Cambridge University Press [2011] 1 online resource (342 pages) text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier IP-based subscription, on-campus, and remote access available via OpenAthens. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPB University Library website. Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition. Yet, more than that, this book shows how the death penalty has helped define the political and cultural identities of both Europe and the United States. Electronic reproduction. United Kingdom Cambridge 2011. Available via World Wide Web through Cambridge. Capital punishment Europe. Capital punishment United States. Electronic books. Sarat, Austin editor. Martschukat, Jürgen editor. Available for University of the Philippines Baguio via Cambridge. Click here to access http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511974380 (viewed 30 June 2022) FO Monograph UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ML-ebook Electronic Resource