'Looking death in the face': The Benetton death penalty campaign

Punishment and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 271-287

  Girling, Evi ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death penalty; Images; Witnessing

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744442994     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474504043632     Document Type: Article

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