Ethical issues: capital punishment books

221 books were found.

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective
Author: Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology, All Soul's College, Oxford) , Carolyn Hoyle (Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford and Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198701743 Format: Paperback	$101.95
The fifth edition of this renowned work charts the progress towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death... Read More >>

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective
Author: Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology, All Soul's College, Oxford) , Carolyn Hoyle (Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford and Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198701736 Format: Hardback	$204.95
The fifth edition of this renowned work charts the progress towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death... Read More >>

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
Author: Andrew Reynolds (Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London) ISBN: 9780198723158 Format: Paperback	$109.95
Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts.... Read More >>

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, Second Edition

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition,...
Author: E. Christian Brugger ISBN: 9780268022419 Format: Paperback	$76.56
This book traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken to its present position as the world’s largest and most... Read More >>

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking...
Author: James D. Slack ISBN: 9781412853989 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Author James D. Slack guides the reader through an in-depth examination of policy toward life and death in the United... Read More >>

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice...
Author: James R. Acker ISBN: 9780415639446 Format: Paperback	$168.00
The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather... Read More >>

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice...
Author: James R. Acker ISBN: 9780415639439 Format: Hardback	$347.00
The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather... Read More >>

Silent Sisters: An Ethnography Of Homeless Women

Silent Sisters: An Ethnography Of Homeless Women
Author: Betty G. Russell ISBN: 9780415763264 Format: Paperback	$50.99
First published in 1991. This work on homelessness amongst women investigates how far it is a gender- based condition.... Read More >>

The Executioner's Toll, 2010: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States

The Executioner's Toll, 2010: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials,...
Author: Matthew T. Mangino ISBN: 9780786479795 Format: Paperback	$60.50
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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty

Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's...
Author: Austin Sarat ISBN: 9780804789165 Format: Hardback	$45.95
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890... Read More >>

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal...
Author: Lill Scherdin ISBN: 9781409457190 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding... Read More >>

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience,...
Author: Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex, UK) ISBN: 9780415622448 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives

Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives...
Author: Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts) , Jürgen Martschukat ISBN: 9781107634275 Format: Paperback	$80.19
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Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study of the World

Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study...
Author: Carsten Anckar ISBN: 9780415860116 Format: Paperback	$92.99
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The Death Penalty, Volume I

The Death Penalty, Volume I
Author: Jacques Derrida (?cole Pratique des Hautes-?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) , Peggy Kamuf ISBN: 9780226144320 Format: Hardback	$67.95
While much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively,... Read More >>

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate Abolition?

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate...
Author: Mai Sato ISBN: 9783658006778 Format: Paperback	$145.17
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Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights,...
Author: Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, University of Oxford and Emeritus fellow) , Surya Deva (Associate Professor, School of Law, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9780199685776 Format: Hardback	$283.00
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Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure

Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure...
Author: Jody Lyneé Madeira ISBN: 9781479856671 Format: Paperback	$64.99
Demonstrates the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been... Read More >>

The Death Penalty in the United States: A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws

The Death Penalty in the United States: A Complete Guide...
Author: Louis J. Palmer Jr. ISBN: 9780786476602 Format: Paperback	$76.00
"""This new edition includes 13 new chapters. Areas covered by some of the new chapters include Capital felon's... Read More >>

The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy

The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations...
Author: Wesley Kendall , Joseph M. Siracusa ISBN: 9781442224346 Format: Hardback	$115.95
The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy analyzes the institutional response to specific forms of foreign intervention... Read More >>

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America...
Author: Clive Stafford Smith ISBN: 9780099572190 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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Hanged at Durham

Hanged at Durham
Author: Steve Fielding ISBN: 9780750947503 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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The Violence of Victimhood

The Violence of Victimhood
Author: Diane Enns (UG Program Director, Ryerson University, Ontario) ISBN: 9780271052434 Format: Paperback	$67.99
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Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing...
Author: Kathleen A. Cairns ISBN: 9780803230095 Format: Hardback	$79.07
Cairns examines how Graham's case became a touchstone in the on-going debate over capital punishment Read More >>

Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions

Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions
Author: Richard A. Stack , Benjamin Todd Jealous ISBN: 9781612341620 Format: Hardback	$79.07
On September 21, 2011, the controversial execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who spent twenty years on death... Read More >>

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