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Murder Stories - Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,735
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Murder Stories - Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Hardcover, New): Paul Kaplan

Murder Stories - Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Hardcover, New)

Paul Kaplan

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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Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Series: Issues in Crime and Justice
Release date: 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Paul Kaplan
Dimensions: 239 x 163 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7170-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
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LSN: 0-7391-7170-4
Barcode: 9780739171707

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