Confronting the death penalty: how language influences jurors in capital cases
Introduction : that's the hardest thing I've ever had to do -- Doing death in Texas : studying jurors in the death penalty state -- I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law : emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions -- Facing death : empathy, emotion, and embodied a...
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Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
[2016]
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En: | Año: 2016 |
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Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 8645 |
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Sumario: | Introduction : that's the hardest thing I've ever had to do -- Doing death in Texas : studying jurors in the death penalty state -- I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law : emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions -- Facing death : empathy, emotion, and embodied actions in jurors' decisions -- Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants -- Agents of the state : Capital jurors' accountability for death sentences -- Conclusions : linguistic dehumanization and democracy |
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Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Descripción Física: | XII, 237 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9780199334162 |