Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

The death penalty has been an area of focus in several academic disciplines, yet modest literature has been generated which examines the sanction from a sociological perspective. Most of the sociological interest in capital punishment is directed at examining and explaining racial disparities in sentencing, its effectiveness as a deterrent to violent crime, or its use as a mode of formal social control. Although execution methods have changed frequently over time in the United States, there is a paucity of research examining this phenomenon through a sociological lens. The extant literature identifies changing societal ideologies regarding the use of institutionalized violence as the impeti for legislative shifts in methods of execution. While these studies are useful in partially explaining method changes through time, there is a dearth of work which specifically addresses the dialectical process by which meanings attached to methods of punishment are socially constructed and negotiated, what social agents are engaged, and how this process occurs with respect to historical context. This dissertation examines the legislative changes in execution methods at two points in time in North Carolina's history, 1935 and 1983. Grounded in a hybrid theoretical foundation of functionalist and interactionist perspectives, this study is a qualitative analysis of historical primary and secondary data. One goal of this project is to identify how social context informed ideologies of state-sanctioned death. Furthermore, this study attempts to reveal some of the various social agents who engaged in the process of negotiating meaning, how this process manifested itself, and how historical context may have influenced differences in legislative motive during the two transition years. A comparative analysis of the data reveals that deference to the institutions of science, technology, and medicine was vital to the process of socially reconstructing and redefining methods of execution at both points in time. However, findings also indicate that public exposure to an existing method of execution as well as historically relative ideologies concerning state-sanctioned death greatly affect how the negotiation of meaning transpires. / Ph. D.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2003.

Univ., Diss.--Lausanne, 2000.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-265). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiẗat Mainz, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242).

Death Penalty - Summary In my thesis I focused on one of the most discussed and one of the oldest institutes of criminal law - the death penalty. Despite the fact that the death penalty was abolished in most of countries (as a result of the abolitionist movement), some countries still continue to apply it. Also public opinion on this issue is not constant. The purpose of this research is not just to explore all aspects of capital punishment in the modern world, but also to reach a subjective opinion on this issue. This thesis is composed of five chapters. Each deals with the different aspects of the capital punishment. In the first chapter, I focused on the history of capital punishment in the world, from ancient world to the early 20th century. Chapter describes the application of the death penalty in different times and different cultures. I analyze the laws of different nations and countries and describe the methods of executions. I also pay attention to the opinion of well known authors (philosophers and politicians). The second chapter describes the history of the death penalty in Czech Republic, from the early beginning until abolition of death penalty in 1990. The third chapter is devoted to analysis of the current situation in the world. It describes laws and methods of executions in the countries...

Death's presence on the Renaissance stage, and in Renaissance life, has been noticed and remarked upon by scholars in the past. The role of death in the early modern period was in flux due to major changes in religious and social life. During this time, the relationship between the living and dead was put into question, and the way the culture handled preparing for death began to change in significant, if subtle, ways. Renaissance drama became a stage for exploring and confronting the presence of death in life. King Lear and Hamlet remain two of Shakespeare's most enduring meditations on death, though the interpretations of the deaths and the meaning gleaned from the texts varies. My project involves presenting an alternative reading of the deaths that can only be found when one reads the performances in relation to primary documents of the time that deal with similar preparations for death. By reading Hamlet in relation to execution rhetoric and King Lear in relation to will-writing in the early modern period, we can begin to understand the value of their deaths in accordance with the societies they represent. Ultimately, Hamlet succeeds in satisfying the demands of an execution and creates a death that serves both himself and his community. On the other hand, Lear fails to adequately prepare for death and compose a considerate will, which leaves his kingdom in ruins. Both are monarchs whose bodies represent the states they leave behind, but only one manages to satisfy a monumentality that maintains the stability of his kingdom.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:27:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Volnei Luiz Denardi-Dissertacao Texto Integral.pdf: 1227600 bytes, checksum: 3f978c6df74e38220b20c77f93afa7d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-05-19 / Tribunal Regional Federal da Terceira Região / The development of the topic judicial and extra-judicial executions in the Housing Financial Systems, governed by Law No. 5741/71 and by Law-Decree No. 70/66, respectively, has as main object to deal with the polemic issues involving these procedures, created under a regime of exception with the purpose of promoting the economic and social development. Although much quicker than the traditional legal procedures, reaching the so much desired scope by means of an alternative and quick way of solving conflicts, the extra-judicial execution still arises controversies in legal scholarship and case law, even over nearly 40 years after the enactment of Law-Decree No. 70/66. Notwithstanding the favorable standpoint taken by the Federal Supreme Court, the constitutional aspects of this procedure still are under discussion, thereby originating issues related to the due process of law, from which issues related to contestation, impartiality and natural judge are derived. No less effective, the procedure established by Law No. 5741/71, destined to the special mortgage execution of contracts entered into within the Housing Financial System, differentiating it from the common procedure of the Civil Procedural Code in face of the suppression of some execution acts, as well as of the limitation of the borrower s equity liability to the excussion of the property mortgaged in the loan contract collateralized by a mortgage. In the special mortgage execution, the debtor can submit the same defenses applicable to the common execution procedure against a solvent debtor contemplated by the Civil Procedural Code, such as debtor s embargoes, intraprocedural defense, and defenses carried out through autonomous information actions. We can highlight, as to the means of defense, the non-suspensivity of debtor s embargoes until the mortgaged property disoccupation. / O desenvolvimento do tema execuções judicial e extrajudicial no Sistema Financeiro da Habitação, disciplinadas na Lei nº 5.741/71 e no Decreto-lei nº 70/66, respectivamente, tem como objetivo fundamental tratar das questões polêmicas que envolvem esses procedimentos, criados em época de regime de exceção com o escopo de promover o desenvolvimento econômico e social. Embora muito mais célere do que os procedimentos judiciais tradicionais, atingindo o tão almejado escopo por forma alternativa ágil na resolução de conflitos, a execução extrajudicial ainda desperta controvérsias na doutrina e na jurisprudência, mesmo depois de quase 40 anos da promulgação do Decreto-lei nº 70/66. Não obstante a posição favorável assumida pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, ainda são discutidos os aspectos constitucionais desse procedimento, surgindo daí questões relacionadas ao princípio do devido processo legal, do qual decorrem o do contraditório, o da imparcialidade e o do juiz natural. Não menos efetivo o procedimento estabelecido na Lei nº 5.741/71, destinado à execução especial hipotecária dos contratos firmados no âmbito do Sistema Financeiro da Habitação, diferenciando-se do procedimento comum do Código de Processo Civil em face da supressão de alguns atos executivos, como pela limitação da responsabilidade patrimonial do mutuário à excussão do bem hipotecado no contrato de mútuo garantido por hipoteca. Na execução especial hipotecária, o devedor pode oferecer as mesmas defesas cabíveis no procedimento comum de execução contra devedor solvente do Código de Processo Civil, como os embargos do devedor, defesa intraprocessual e a realizada por meio de ações autônomas de conhecimento. Destaca-se, quanto aos meios de defesa, a não suspensividade dos embargos do devedor até a desocupação do imóvel hipotecado.

The overall aim of this study is to determine the impact of text and language in the form of how political speech can affect and form a discourse that excludes a certain category of people and how such an exclusion leads to exercise of power beyond normal, democratic rules of state intervention towards said group of people. This is a case study investigating the drug war of the Philippines, initiated by the country’s president Rodrigo Duterte, and his speeches related to the drug issue. The method of use is discourse analysis and the study is based upon the international relations theory of securitization by the so called Copenhagen School, consisting of Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver & Jaap de Wilde. Among the key findings are the picture of a discourse, formed by political speech, where individuals using or dealing with drugs are described as a threat is a central aspect, alongside with discursive elements such as a collective identity, human rights aspects, economic arguments, the future of the nation, certain values and the judicial system. These elements and values are given meaning as reference objects and within the discourse that makes them part of the establishment of a notion where people who use or deal with drugs are regarded as a threat and therefore can be legitimate subjects of exercise of power outside of the normal rules of democratic authority. Keywords: securitization, drugs, Philippines, discourse analysis, Copenhagen School, extra- judicial executions, otherness.