Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Pardons and Punishments
Author: Exposition of the Law of Crimes and Punishments
Author: John Barbee MinorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Pardons and Punishments
Author: Pardons and Punishments
Author: List & Index SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Capital Punishment
Author: Bruce E. R. ThompsonPublisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0737746335
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This volume provides an abundance of information on the history of capital punishment, and ongoing opposition to it. Author Bruce E.R. Thompson includes narratives on well-known figures on both sides of the issue. Various methods of execution are explained and their use placed in historical context. Legal terminology important to the debate is defined and explained.
The Criminal Law
Author: James Edward GrigsbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
Book Description
Discipline and Punish
Author: Michel FoucaultPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada, Made to the Legislature of New York, January, 1867
Author: Enoch Cobb WinesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment
Author: Marion VannierPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198827822
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue. This book presents a unique case study of the 'normalization' of LWOP. More specifically, it explores the ties between LWOP's normalization and death penalty abolitionism, using California as a case study. Drawing on rich empirical research, it brings together relevant literature in criminology, the sociology of punishment, social policy, and sentencing to provide insights into the nature of American penal politics, the role of progressive pressure groups, and the relationship between life imprisonment and capital punishment. This study investigates the extent to which members of civil society who challenge capital punishment (lawyers, non-profit organizations, and lobbyists) have helped normalize LWOP by fostering the belief that it is humane and merciful. The monograph focuses on three domains where anti-death penalty activists have lobbied, campaigned, pled for, and agreed to LWOP; Congress, the political sphere, and courtrooms. For each domain, the book teases out the motivations of the main actors and agencies involved. It analyses the constraints under which they considered themselves to be operating, and the relationship between these motivations and the broad social, legal, and political environment in which they unfolded. Particular attention is paid to actors' understandings of the concepts of 'life' and 'death' in punishment.