Punishment In Japan Research Articles

The Cultural lives of capital punishment: comparative perspectives

Contents Contributors 000 1. Putting Culture into the Picture: Toward a Comparative Analysis of State Killing 000 Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat Part I: Civilization and Punishment: Self and in Europe and the Americas 2. Nineteenth-Century Executions as Performances of Law, Death, and Civilization 000 Jurgen Martschukat 3. Seed of Abolition: Experience and Culture in the Desire to End Capital Punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 000 Patrick Timmons 4. The Lives of Capital Punishment in the United States 000 Judith Randle 5. European Identity and the Mission Against the Death Penalty in the United States 000 Evi Girling 6. Crime and Punishment/Self versus Other: The of Capital Punishment Comparative Perspective of European and American Film 000 Louise Tyler 7. Capital Punishment in Poland: An Aspect of the Cultural Life of the Death Penalty Discourse 000 Agata Fijalkowski Part II: State Killing and State Violence in Central and South Asia and the Middle East 8. Capital Punishment in Kyrgyzstan: Between the Past, Other State Killings and Social Demands 000 Botagoz Kassymbekova 9. Death and the Nation: State Killing in India 000 Julia Eckert 10. Imagining the Death Penalty in Israel: Punishment, Violence, Vengeance, and Revenge 000 Shai J. Lavi 11. The Palestinian Culture of Death: Shariah and Siyasah: Justice, Political Power, and Capital Punishment in the Palestinian National Authority 000 Judith Mendelsohn Rood Part III: Paternal States, Values, and Visions of Social Order: Capital Punishment in East and Southeast Asia 12. Saving State Face: Capital Punishment in Japan 000 David T. Johnson 13. What Is Wrong with Capital Punishment? Official and Unofficial Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment in Modern and Contemporary China 000 Virgil K. Y. Ho 14. Capital Punishment and the Culture of Developmentalism in Singapore 000 Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz 15. Ending State Killing in South Korea: Challenging the Asian Capital Punishment Status Quo 000 Sangmin Bae Index