Peculiar Institution

America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

David Garland

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$22.50 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674066106

Publication Date: 10/22/2012

Short

432 pages

5-7/8 x 8-15/16 inches

3 figs, 3 tables

Belknap Press

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Prologue: The Exemplary Execution
1. A Peculiar Institution
2. The American Way of Death
3. Historical Modes of Capital Punishment
4. The Death Penalty’s Decline
5. Processes of Transformation
6. State and Society in America
7. Capital Punishment in America
8. An American Abolition
9. New Political and Cultural Meanings
10. Reinventing the Death Penalty
11. Death and Its Uses
Epilogue: Discourse and Death
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

Honorable Mention, 2013 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association

2012 Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology

2012 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology

2011 Barrington Moore Book Award, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology of the American Sociological Association

Co-Winner, 2011 Mary Douglas Prize, Section on the Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association

2010 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2011

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