edited by David Garland, Randall McGowen, and Michael Meranze
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New York :
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New York University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 232 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: Getting the question right? Ways of thinking about the death penalty / Randall McGowen -- Modes of capital punishment: the death penalty in historical perspective / David Garland -- The death penalty: between law, sovereignty, and biopolitics / Michael Meranze -- Through the wrong end of the telescope: history, the death penalty, and the American experience / Randall McGowen -- Hanging and the English judges: the judicial politics of retention and abolition / Douglas Hay -- Interposition: segregation, capital punishment, and the forging of the post-New Deal political leader / Jonathan Simon -- The convict's two lives: civil and natural death in the American prison / Rebecca McLennan