Evolving Standards of Decency : Popular

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.

Mary Welek Atwell is Professor of Criminal Justice at Radford University in Virginia.

The public and capital punishment : past and present	p. 6
"A random assortment of pariahs" : the Supreme Court considers the death penalty	p. 24
Real people and "true-life novels"	p. 48
Novels transformed into films	p. 78
Killing to show that killing is wrong : the death penalty in the movies	p. 111
If words could kill : crime fiction and the death penalty	p. 128
The power of stories	p. 145
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Evolving Standards of Decency : Popular Culture and Capital Punishment

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