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<p><p>built On In-depth Interviews With Movement Leaders And The Records Of Key Abolitionist Organizations, This Work Traces The Struggle Against Capital Punishment In The United States Since 1972. Haines Reviews The Legal Battles That Led To The Short-lived Suspension Of The Death Penalty And Examines The Subsequent Conservative Turn In The Courts That Has Forced Death Penalty Opponents To Rely Less On Litigation Strategies And More On Political Action. Employing Social Movement Theory, He Diagnoses The Causes Of The Anti-death Penalty Movement's Inability To Mobilize Widespread Opposition To Executions, And He Makes Pointed Recommendations For Improving Its Effectiveness. For This Edition Haines Has Included A New Afterword In Which He Summarizes Developments In The Movement Since 1994.</p> <h3>dennis D. Dorin</h3> <p>sociologist Herbert Haines Has Attempted To Apply Social Constructionist Theories Of Social Problems And Social Movement Analysis To America's Anti-death Penalty Activism, Especially Of The Post-1972 Years. His Primary Focus Is The Behavior Of The Legal Defense Fund, The America Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International Usa And The National Coalition To Abolish T

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Author

Herbert H. Haines

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195088380

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Social Science