DEATH PENALTY and USA
Laurie Taylor hears conflicting theories of the relationship between American culture and American capital punishment from , New York University’s double Professor of Law and Sociology.
Out of all the Western nations the USA alone continues to execute its prisoners, the question is why?Ìý Until the seventies, the country appeared to be on the same abolitionist trajectory as the rest of Europe, but, as the Europeans, one after another, abolished the most extreme penalty, America moved in the opposite direction.
Is there, as some critics claim, something in the nation’s cultural make-up which predisposes it to be a killing State?Ìý Or is it possible to find another explanation which might give abolitionists grounds for hope?
Additional information:
The publication date of David Garland's new article onÌýCapital Punishment and American CultureÌýis not yet known; e-mail Professor Garland for a copy of the article.
Publications:
Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies
Avebury ISBN 0566054310
Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory
Clarendon Press ISBN 0198762666
Of Crime and Criminals: The Development of Criminology in Britain
in Oxford Handbook of Criminology - 3rd edition
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199249377
Criminology and Social Theory
David Garland (Editor), Richard Sparks (Editor)
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0198299427
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199258023
The Cultural Uses of Capital Punishment
from Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology
Sage Publication ISSN 1462 4745
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