Evolving Standards of Decency

Evolving Standards of Decency

Popular Culture and Capital Punishment

by Mary Welek Atwell

178 pages· 2004· ISBN 9780820467115
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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. Those studying justice issues, corrections, or capital punishment will find this an accessible 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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