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Confronting the death penalty : how language influences jurors in capital cases
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- Creator
- Robin Conley
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- xii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0199334161, 9780199334162
- OCLC
- ocn905419490
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : that's the hardest thing I've ever had to do -- Doing death in Texas : studying jurors in the death penalty state -- I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law : emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions -- Facing death : empathy, emotion, and embodied actions in jurors' decisions -- Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants -- Agents of the state : Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions -- Conclusions : linguistic dehumanization and democracy