TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atwell,Mary Welek
TI  - Evolving standards of decency: popular culture and capital punishment 
T2  - Politics, media & popular culture
SN  - 0820467111 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HV8699.U5 A89 2004
U1  - 364.66/0973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - P. Lang
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Capital punishment in popular culture
KW  - Mass media and public opinion
KW  - Todesstrafe
KW  - Öffentliche Meinung
KW  - Massenmedien
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-178); Ch. 1; The public and capital punishment : past and present --; Ch. 2; "A random assortment of pariahs" : the Supreme Court considers the death penalty --; Ch. 3; Real people and "true-life novels" --; Ch. 4; Novels transformed into films --; Ch. 5; Killing to show that killing is wrong : the death penalty in the movies --; Ch. 6; If words could kill : crime fiction and the death penalty --; Ch. 7; The power of stories
N2  - "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."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004014688.html
ER  -