Author: Eric Roy CalvertPublisher: London : V. Gollancz
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Death Penalty Enquiry, Being a Review of the Evidence Before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment, 1930
Author: Eric Roy CalvertPublisher: London : V. Gollancz
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Capital Punishment in the Twentieth Century
Author: Eric R. CalvertThe Death Penalty Enquiry
Author: Eric Roy CalvertThe Politics of the Rope
Author: N. H. TwitchellPublisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1906791988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the definitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so extensively before. From the sphere of governmental and parliamentary politics, to the relevant pressure groups, to the role of the mass media, to the significance of the different churches, and the influence of professional bodies, such as those representing the police and prison officers, the book skilfully identifies their interaction with one another. It examines the effect on the campaign of fluctuations in public opinion, and of controversial murder cases such as those of Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty, which in turn often informed the state of public opinion The work sets the campaign in the context of the social and cultural ferment of the era (the advent of the permissive society), and contrasts the fortunes of the movement with those of other "conscience issues," such as the legalisation of abortion, homosexual law reform, divorce liberalisation and the abolition of theatre censorship. It seeks to account for the success of the campaign within a relatively short time span in the face of intense public antipathy and a concerted effort by various elements of the establishment to thwart its fulfilment. It asks why the campaign succeeded when so many others facing lesser institutional obstacles failed, and it asks why it succeeded when it did and in the way it did, and considers whether the success of the campaign can be accounted for by the Zeitgeist. On one level it is a study of the politics of social reform, but at a deeper level it is a study of the way in which social trends feed through into political action at the parliamentary level, and illustrates the process of policy formation in the area of private members legislation and free votes where "party" has voluntarily taken a back seat.
Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Author: British Library of Political and Economic SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Is the Death Penalty Dying?
Author: Austin SaratPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496522
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition.
Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence
Author: Canada. Parliament Joint Committee on Capital and Corporal Punishment and LotteriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Crusade Against Capital Punishment in Great Britain
Author: Elizabeth Ann Orman TuttlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Hanging Question
Author: Howard League for Penal ReformPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description