Death Penalty A Comparison Between Germany And American Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment

Author : Aleks Ancenko
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656949417
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Penalty. A Comparison Between Germany and American Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment written by Aleks Ancenko and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-University Paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 15, , language: English, abstract: In the following term paper the author is going to compare the German and American attitude toward the death penalty. At first she wants to clarify the definition. This paper will give a brief overview of the recent history of capital punishment in both states. The emphasis is on the comparison between these different attitudes. Providing to the findings of the German attitude the author indents to carry out a survey. Finally, she would like to express her own opinion on the topic.

Author : Rita James Simon
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739120910
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment written by Rita James Simon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, Simon and Blaskovich's work compares, across societies, the offense types punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories of persons exempt from punishment. It examines the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to violent offenses, especially homicide, the extent to which innocent persons have become the victims of capital punishment, and occurrences of state sponsored genocide and democide. This book is a practical and useful tool for public policy makers, criminal justice practitioners, students, and anyone who seeks to better understand the worldwide debate on this controversial social issue.

Author : Carol S. Steiker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786433257
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Capital Punishment written by Carol S. Steiker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.

Author : Nicole Gast
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638461769
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Penalty in the USA written by Nicole Gast and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1-, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Various attitudes and passions like racism, revenge, religion and political power have supported the imposition of the death penalty. The aim of this paper is answer the question whether the media, Christian religion and the policy of the United States of America bear full responsibility for the existence and the ongoing justification of the death penalty. These three institutions possess huge influence on the peoples ́ opinions and form the three pillars of US pride. I will try to find my personal answer through isolating these pillars and explaining their efforts to evade the often required abolition of the death penalty. There is no execution in the USA that is not accompanied by demonstrators - opponents as well as proponents. So it was only a matter of time until the popular press recognized the controversial topic “death penalty” as their new pecuniary resource. “When citizens are confronted with the issue of capital punishment, be they jury members or other by – standers, they decide if death as punishment is applicable in that single case, or, more broadly, if it is in the interest of society at all. By – standers are not, in fact, neutral or impartial. As human beings they are shaped by their world outlook.” As we all know the media plays a major role in this outlook and it is easy for them to indoctrinate peoples ́ minds with their conviction of right and wrong. The media tells us, sometimes subtly, sometimes directly, what clothes to wear, what car to drive, what music to like and maybe also what “monster” to send to death row.

Author : A. Hammel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277365
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ending the Death Penalty written by A. Hammel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the successful movements to abolish capital punishment in the UK, France, and Germany, this book examines the similarities in the social structure and political strategies of abolition movements in all three countries. An in-depth comparative analysis with other countries assesses chances of success of abolition elsewhere.

Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521378635
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Punishment and the American Agenda written by Franklin E. Zimring and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s. The book, which shows a United States pursuing an active execution policy, is an original and compelling contribution to the discussion of the future of the death penalty.

Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty in America written by Hugo Adam Bedau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of capital punishment issues, including American attitudes, deterence problems, and discussions for and against the death penalty.

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383011067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Retribution written by Richard J. Evans and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of capital punishment in Germany deals with the politics of the death penalty and the cultural significance of executions. Insight into the modern development of Germany is illuminated through a survey of German attitudes to law, deviance, cruelty, suffering and death.

Author : American Orthopsychiatric Association
Publisher : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Punishment in the United States written by American Orthopsychiatric Association and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis P. Pojman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585080682
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty written by Louis P. Pojman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work. Louis P. Pojman justifies the practice of execution by appealing to the principle of retribution: we deserve to be rewarded and punished according to the virtue or viciousness of our actions. He asserts that the death penalty does deter some potential murderers and that we risk the lives of innocent people who might otherwise live if we refuse to execute those deserving that punishment. Jeffrey Reiman argues that although the death penalty is a just punishment for murder, we are not morally obliged to execute murderers. Since we lack conclusive evidence that executing murderers is an effective deterrent and because we can foster the advance of civilization by demonstrating our intolerance for cruelty in our unwillingness to kill those who kill others, Reiman concludes that it is good in principle to avoid the death penalty, and bad in practice to impose it.