Austin Sarat: 15 books
Gruesome Spectacles
Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood...
Mercy on Trial
What It Means to Stop an Execution
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For...
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to...
When Law Fails
Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer...
The Death Penalty on the Ballot
American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America, this book poses the question: can ending the death penalty be done democratically? How is it that a liberal democracy like the United States shares the distinction of being a leading proponent of the death penalty with some...
Special Issue: Who Belongs?
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Constitution of Legality
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities. This special issue interrogates how law defines identity. It addresses the key themes of immigration...
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State
Race and the Death Penalty in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment.
In...
The Time of Catastrophe
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question. The Time of Catastrophe demonstrates the analytic productiveness of this question, arguing...
by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, articles examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact...
Special Issue
The Beautiful Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation...
Trial Films on Trial
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen
Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908,...
by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" contains an international and interdisciplinary array of legal scholarship. Presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, this work illuminates the law's response to its social context as well as the way...
by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together an international spread of legal scholars, presenting a varied collection of chapters. Chapters include: child abduction during the military dictatorship in Argentina; a novel approach to empirical research on legal framing from the...
by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America’s distinctive approach...
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