RT Book
T1 Confronting the death penalty: how language influences jurors in capital cases
T2 Oxford studies in language and law
A1 Conley, Robin
LA English
PP Oxford New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/161756107X
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KF9227.C2
SN 9780199334162
K1 Capital Punishment : United States
K1 Jury : United States
K1 Decision Making
K1 USA : Todesstrafe : Geschworenengericht : Sprachstil : Schuldspruch : Urteil
K1 USA : Todesstrafe : Rechtsprechung : Sprachstil