Ethical issues: capital punishment books

212 books were found.

The Violence of Victimhood

The Violence of Victimhood

Author: Diane Enns (UG Program Director, Ryerson University, Ontario)
ISBN: 9780271052427
Format: Hardback
$155.00

Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict,...  Read More >>

Cruel and Unusual

Cruel and Unusual

Author: John D. Bessler
ISBN: 9781555537166
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate...  Read More >>

Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment

Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment...

Author: Paul Kaplan
ISBN: 9780739171707
Format: Hardback
$129.95

Murder Stories takes on the difficult question of American retention of capital punishment by investigating the...  Read More >>

Crime, Punishment and Justice

Crime, Punishment and Justice

Author: Lisa Firth
ISBN: 9781861686084
Format: Paperback
$20.57

This is a guide to the prevalance of crime, covering young offenders, gun crime and violent crime. It also covers...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and its Consequences

The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation...

Author: Matthew Kramer (Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy, Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199642182
Format: Hardback
$195.95

Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, The Ethics of Capital Punishment presents a...  Read More >>

Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain...

Author: Simon Webb
ISBN: 9780752464077
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah: A Comprehensive Registry

Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado,...

Author: R. Michael Wilson
ISBN: 9780786463268
Format: Paperback
$137.50

Since statehood was achieved in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, 321 men and 2 women have been executed....  Read More >>

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal...

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson
ISBN: 9780415892476
Format: Paperback
$105.47

"Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious...  Read More >>

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal...

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson
ISBN: 9780415892469
Format: Hardback
$409.20

"Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious...  Read More >>

Silent Sisters: An Ethnography of Homeless Women

Silent Sisters: An Ethnography of Homeless Women

Author: Betty G. Russell
ISBN: 9781136592782
Format: Electronic book text
$65.29

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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Author: Joseph A. Melusky (Saint Francis University, USA) ,  Keith A. Pesto
ISBN: 9780313335587
Format: Hardback
$92.00

This balanced approach to legal precedent and moral argument regarding the death penalty presents the evidence so...  Read More >>

Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject

Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject...

Author: Austin Sarat ,  Karl Shoemaker
ISBN: 9781558498822
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Analyzes the cultural, philosophical, and legal grounds for capital punishment in the contemporary United States...  Read More >>

Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject

Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject...

Author: Austin Sarat ,  Karl Shoemaker
ISBN: 9781558498839
Format: Paperback
$76.43

How do we select those who will be subject to capital punishment? How do we identify the worst of the worst and...  Read More >>

Legal Executions in Tennessee: A Comprehensive Registry, 1782-2009

Legal Executions in Tennessee: A Comprehensive Registry,...

Author: Lewis L. Laska
ISBN: 9780786459759
Format: Paperback
$137.50

This complete, chronological registry documents the crimes, trials and deaths of the 524 people who have been legally...  Read More >>

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking...

Author: James D. Slack
ISBN: 9781412842228
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Capital Punishment In America

Capital Punishment In America

Author: Evan J. Mandery ,  Evan J Mandery
ISBN: 9781449605988
Format: Paperback
$171.47

This revised and updated Second Edition is an innovative, balanced, and comprehensive overview of capital punishment....  Read More >>

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales...

Author: David Chura
ISBN: 9780807001233
Format: Paperback
$40.00

A nonfiction work of narrative essays about juveniles sentenced to adult prison, giving a human face not only to...  Read More >>

Killing Time: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution

Killing Time: One Man's Race to Stop an Execution

Author: David R. Dow
ISBN: 9780099537533
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas, where 99%...  Read More >>

Legal Executions After Statehood in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon: A Comprehensive Registry

Legal Executions After Statehood in North Dakota, South...

Author: R. Michael Wilson
ISBN: 9780786461264
Format: Paperback
$250.80

Chronicles all legal executions performed in seven western states, from the date each attained statehood to December...  Read More >>

The Practice of Execution in Canada

The Practice of Execution in Canada

Author: Ken Leyton-Brown
ISBN: 9780774817547
Format: Paperback
$94.91

The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.  Read More >>

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: 9780511974380
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This book provides an analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from...  Read More >>

The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

Author: Hayley R Mitchell
ISBN: 9780737749380
Format: Hardback
$97.15

Examines the issue of the death penalty by looking at arguments from both sides of the debate.  Read More >>

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an...

Author: David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University)
ISBN: 9780199594993
Format: Hardback
$93.95

Taking us inside the world of capital punishment, this book presents a compelling picture of America's peculiar...  Read More >>

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