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Jurors' stories of death : how America's death penalty invests in inequality / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner ; with a foreword by David Cole.

By: Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-
Series: Law, meaning, and violence: Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004Description: xix, 199 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780472068609Subject(s): Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States | Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States | Jury -- United StatesDDC classification: 364.66/0973
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.
Summary: Benjamin Fleury-Steiner draws on real-life accounts of white and black jurors in capital punishment trials to discuss the effect of race on the sentencing process. He finds that race is invariably a factor in sentencing, with jurors relying on accounts that deny the often marginalized defendants their individuality and complexity, while reinforcing the jurors' own identities as superior, moral, and law-abiding citizens-a system that punishes in the name of dominance. This biased story of "us versus them" continues to infuse political rhetoric on crime and punishment in the United States.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and indexes.

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner draws on real-life accounts of white and black jurors in capital punishment trials to discuss the effect of race on the sentencing process. He finds that race is invariably a factor in sentencing, with jurors relying on accounts that deny the often marginalized defendants their individuality and complexity, while reinforcing the jurors' own identities as superior, moral, and law-abiding citizens-a system that punishes in the name of dominance. This biased story of "us versus them" continues to infuse political rhetoric on crime and punishment in the United States.

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