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Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994

Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994

Haines, Herbert H.

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CriminologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0195132491
ISBN13: 9780195132496
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 19 1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Built on in-depth interviews with movement leaders and the records of key abolitionist organizations, this work traces the struggle against capital punishment in the United States since 1972. Haines reviews the legal battles that led to the short-lived suspension of the death penalty and examines the subsequent conservative turn in the courts that has forced death penalty opponents to rely less on litigation strategies and more on political action. Employing social movement theory, he diagnoses the causes of the anti-death penalty movement's inability to mobilize widespread opposition to executions, and he makes pointed recommendations for improving its effectiveness. For this edition Haines has included a new Afterword in which he summarizes developments in the movement since 1994.

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