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Wretched Sisters

Examining Gender and Capital Punishment

By: Mary Welek Atwell

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Wretched Sisters

Examining Gender and Capital Punishment

By: Mary Welek Atwell

Reflects how the criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particular gendered context. Atwell offers an analysis of the legal and popular cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death, and provides an account of how eleven came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment. From publisher description.

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Peter Lang

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0820478830

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9780820478838

Evolving Standards of Decency

Popular Culture and Capital Punishment

By: Mary Welek Atwell

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Evolving Standards of Decency

Popular Culture and Capital Punishment

By: Mary Welek Atwell

The Supreme Court has looked to «evolving standards of decency» in determining whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Evolving Standards of Decency examines the ways in which popular culture portrays the death penalty. By analyzing literature and film, Atwell argues that capital punishment becomes much more complex when both offenders and victims are presented as fully developed individuals. Numerous books and films from the last several decades expose flaws in the criminal justice system and provide audiences with stories that raise questions about race, class, and actual innocence in the administration of the ultimate punishment. Although most people will not read legal briefs supporting or challenging the death penalty, many will see films or read novels that raise issues about its fairness. Themes and images gathered through popular culture may ultimately influence whether Americans continue to believe that capital punishment conforms to their evolving standards of decency and justice. Those studying justice issues, corrections, or capital punishment will find this an accessible and provocative work that places the stories read in novels or seen in movies in the context of the legal system that has the power of life and death.

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0820467111

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9780820467115

Evolving Standards of Decency

Popular Culture and Capital Punishment

By: Mary Welek Atwell

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Popular Culture and Capital Punishment

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An American Dilemma

International Law, Capital Punishment, and Federalism

By: M. Atwell

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An American Dilemma

International Law, Capital Punishment, and Federalism

By: M. Atwell

An American Dilemma examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States as it conflicts with the nation's obligations under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In a number of high profile cases, foreign nationals have been executed after being denied their rights under the Vienna Convention. The International Court of Justice has ruled against the United States, but individual states have chosen to defy international law. The Supreme Court has not resolved the question of legal remedies for such breaches.

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Springer

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1137270373

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9781137270375

Wretched Sisters

Examining Gender and Capital Punishment

By: Mary Welek Atwell

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Wild Girls

By: Mary Stewart Atwell

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Wild Girls

By: Mary Stewart Atwell

A mix of Prep's critique of boarding school culture and the suspenseful and high-stakes plot of The Secret History, this highly original debut is part coming-of-age story, part riveting supernatural tale about teenage girls learning their own strength. Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachian town of Swan River: that she'll be a frustrated townie forever, or that she'll turn into one of the monstrous Wild Girls that menace the community, throwing flame from their hands. Struggling to better her chances of escaping, Kate attends the posh Swan River Academy and finds herself divided between two worlds: the simple town and its dark twin, a commune off Bloodwort Road, where hippie farming and occult practices led to a disastrous end; and the realm of privilege and achievement at the Academy. Explosive friendships with Mason, a boy from the wrong side of the river, and Willow, a wealthy and charismatic queen bee from school, are slowly pulling her apart. Kate must decide who she is and where she belongs before she wakes up with cinders at her fingertips.

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Doubleday Canada

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0385677766

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9780385677769

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Wretched Sisters

Wretched Sisters

Evolving Standards of Decency

Evolving Standards of Decency

Evolving Standards of Decency

Evolving Standards of Decency

An American Dilemma

An American Dilemma

Wretched Sisters

Wretched Sisters

Wild Girls

Wild Girls

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