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The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195152364)
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xWhy does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved?
In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in our country. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation's highest legal principles of fairness and due process. It sets us increasingly apart from our allies and indeed is regarded by European nations as a barbaric and particularly egregious form of American exceptionalism. On the other hand, the death penalty represents a deeply held American belief in violent social justice that sees the hangman as an agent of local control and safeguard of community values. Zimring uncovers the most troubling symptom of this attraction to vigilante justice in the lynch mob. He shows that the great majority of executions in recent decades have occurred in precisely those Southern states where lynchings were most common a hundred years ago. It is this legacy, Zimring suggests, that constitutes both the distinctive appeal of the death penalty in the United States and one of the most compelling reasons for abolishing it.
Impeccably researched and engagingly written, Contradictions in American Capital Punishment casts a clear new light on America's long and troubled embrace of the death penalty.
Author: Franklin E. Zimring
ISBN-10: 0195152360
ISBN-13: 9780195152364
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2003
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.68h x 6.34w x 0.96d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2003 pg. 451
Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 107
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1748
In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in our country. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation's highest legal principles of fairness and due process. It sets us increasingly apart from our allies and indeed is regarded by European nations as a barbaric and particularly egregious form of American exceptionalism. On the other hand, the death penalty represents a deeply held American belief in violent social justice that sees the hangman as an agent of local control and safeguard of community values. Zimring uncovers the most troubling symptom of this attraction to vigilante justice in the lynch mob. He shows that the great majority of executions in recent decades have occurred in precisely those Southern states where lynchings were most common a hundred years ago. It is this legacy, Zimring suggests, that constitutes both the distinctive appeal of the death penalty in the United States and one of the most compelling reasons for abolishing it.
Impeccably researched and engagingly written, Contradictions in American Capital Punishment casts a clear new light on America's long and troubled embrace of the death penalty.
Author: Franklin E. Zimring
ISBN-10: 0195152360
ISBN-13: 9780195152364
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2003
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.68h x 6.34w x 0.96d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2003 pg. 451
Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 107
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1748
By Franklin E. Zimring
xFranklin Zimring is the William G Simon Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Crime Is Not the Problem and American Youth Violence, both published by OUP.
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