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Murder Stories - Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Paperback)
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Murder Stories - Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Paperback)
Series: Issues in Crime and Justice
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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
ideologies-liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and
laissez faire-said 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.
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