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2 mai 2018
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Vivien Miller, « Introduction », Crime, Histoire & Sociétés, ID : 10.4000/chs.1710
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The death penalty continues to generate numerous studies by sociologists, criminologists, historians, journalists, and lawyers, and remains a subject of popular fascination. Many studies of the United States, for example, endeavour to explain why most individual states and the federal government retain capital punishment, when nearly all other industrialised and post-industrial nations have abolished it completely. Indeed, in the decades after the end of World War II, the United States seemed...