Classifying to kill
Subtitle: an ethnography of the death penalty system in the United States
By: Brackette F. Williams
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857451248; 9780857451255
Subjects: Capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Formal classification schemes : a problem for 21st century; title: Informal classification and public moral outrage; title: Making offender and offended categoric identity disparities; title: Informal classification and untamed sexual identity; title: Formal classification schemes : taming moral outrage; title: Formal classification: taming person; title: Statutory and non-statutory mitigation: taming unique; title: Mitigation : making categoric persons; title: System legitimacy: crossing nodes, standards, and product quality; title: Balancing acts : principles, whole persons, and sentencing; title: Conclusion : the wilds of classification and cognition.