2012, ISBN: 9780739171714

Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural c… More...

Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ';American' ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses. Through analyzing the content and processes of death penalty narratives, this research illuminates the covert life of ';the American Creed,' (a nexus of ideologiesliberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez fairesaid to be unique to the United States) in the law. Murder Stories draws on the entire record of California death sentence resulting trials from three large and diverse California counties for the years 1996 2004, as well as interviews with 26 capital caseworkers (attorneys, judges, and investigators) from the same counties. Employing the theoretical framework proposed by Ewick and Silbey (1995) to study hegemonic and subversive narratives, and also the ethnographic approach advocated by Amsterdam and Hertz (1992) to study the producers and processes of constructing legal narratives, this book traces the ideological content carried within the stories told by everyday practitioners of capital punishment by investigating the content, process, and ideological implications of these narratives.The central theoretical finding is that the narratives constructed by both prosecutors and defenders tend to instantiate rather than subvert the ideological tenets of the American Creed. [PU: Lexington Books], Seiten: 218, Lexington Books, 2012<

2012, ISBN: 9780739171714

Lexington Books, Kindle Edition, Auflage: Reprint, 219 Seiten, Publiziert: 2012-01-16T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Criminology, Crime & Criminals, Politics, Philos… More...

Lexington Books, Kindle Edition, Auflage: Reprint, 219 Seiten, Publiziert: 2012-01-16T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Criminology, Crime & Criminals, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Subjects, Books, Punishment, Politics & Social Sciences, Kindle eBooks, Categories, Kindle Store, Format: Kindle eBook, Lexington Books, 2012<

ISBN: 9780739171714

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 conte… More...

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.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Society & culture: general > Ethical issues & debates > Ethical issues: capi, Wiley<

ISBN: 9780739171714

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