Author: 黎曦Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Strong Court, Mild Punishment
Author: 黎曦Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Harsh Justice
Author: James Q. WhitmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively harsh? In this novel work of comparative legal history, James Whitman argues that the answer lies in America's triumphant embrace of a non-hierarchical social system and distrust of state power which have contributed to a law of punishment that is more willing to degrade offenders.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Naval Training Bulletin
Author: Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts During the Session of the General Court
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Contains bills and other legislative documents.
Between the Devil and the Host
Author: Michael OstlingPublisher: Past & Present Book
ISBN: 0199587906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.
The Penology of the Mediaeval Canon Law
Author: Harry Holbert Turney-HighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Russian Peasants Go to Court
Author: Jane BurbankPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253110299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"... will challenge (and should transform) existing interpretations of late Imperial Russian governance, peasant studies, and Russian legal history." -- Cathy A. Frierson "... a major contribution to our understanding both of the dynamic of change within the peasantry and of legal development in late Imperial Russia." -- William G. Wagner Russian Peasants Go to Court brings into focus the legal practice of Russian peasants in the township courts of the Russian empire from 1905 through 1917. Contrary to prevailing conceptions of peasants as backward, drunken, and ignorant, and as mistrustful of the state, Jane Burbank's study of court records reveals engaged rural citizens who valued order in their communities and made use of state courts to seek justice and to enforce and protect order. Through narrative studies of individual cases and statistical analysis of a large body of court records, Burbank demonstrates that Russian peasants made effective use of legal opportunities to settle disputes over economic resources, to assert personal dignity, and to address the bane of small crimes in their communities. The text is enhanced by contemporary photographs and lively accounts of individual court cases.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont
Author: Vermont. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
To Establish Rational Criteria for the Imposition of Capital Punishment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description