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Jurors' stories of death : how America's death penalty invests in inequality /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
Subjects:
Discrimination in capital punishment > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Jury > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Race politics, punishment, and the bureaucracy of death
  • Story worlds of death
  • Insiders
  • Voices of resistance
  • Representing death
  • Handling resisters
  • Conclusion: pawns of the state
  • Appendix A. A politics of the insiders
  • Appendix B. A closer look at African American capital jurors
  • Appendix C. The jurors.