Ultimate Penalties
Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814205310
Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814205310
Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Lisa Guenther
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823265315
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black man has a greater chance of going to prison than to college. The United States is the only Western democracy to retain the death penalty, even after decades of scholarship, statistics, and even legal decisions have depicted a deeply flawed system structured by racism and class oppression. Motivated by a conviction that mass incarceration and state execution are among the most important ethical and political problems of our time, the contributors to this volume come together from a diverse range of backgrounds to analyze, critique, and envision alternatives to the injustices of the U.S. prison system, with recourse to deconstruction, phenomenology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, and disability studies. They engage with the hyper-incarceration of people of color, the incomplete abolition of slavery, the exploitation of prisoners as workers and as “raw material” for the prison industrial complex, the intensive confinement of prisoners in supermax units, and the complexities of capital punishment in an age of abolition. The resulting collection contributes to a growing intellectual and political resistance to the apparent inevitability of incarceration and state execution as responses to crime and to social inequalities. It addresses both philosophers and activists who seek intellectual resources to contest the injustices of punishment in the United States.
Author : Roger Hood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191005304
The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasising the impact of international human rights principles and evidence of abuse, the authors examine how this has fuelled challenges to the death penalty and they analyse and appraise the likely obstacles, political and cultural, to further abolition. They discuss the cruel realities of the death penalty and the failure of international standards always to ensure fair trials and to avoid arbitrariness, discrimination and conviction of the innocent: all violations of the right to life. They provide further evidence of the lack of a general deterrent effect; shed new light on the influence and limits of public opinion; and argue that substituting for the death penalty life imprisonment without parole raises many similar human rights concerns. This edition provides a strong intellectual and evidential basis for regarding capital punishment as undeniably cruel, inhuman and degrading. Widely relied upon and fully updated to reflect the current state of affairs worldwide, this is an invaluable resource for all those who study the death penalty and work towards its removal as an international goal.
Author : Ohio Northern University Law Review
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Seeds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520977025
In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny for too long.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Virgina Leigh Hatch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9780190212681
Capital Punishment: Theory and Practice of the Ultimate Penalty is a fair, balanced, and accessible introduction to the greatest moral issue facing the American criminal justice system today. Opening with a unique chapter that outlines the philosophical and theoretical explanations for punishment and its relevance to the death-penalty debate, the authors then explore the wide array of topics in the field. The text covers the history of the death penalty in the U.S. from colonial times to the present day; the relevant landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases from Furman v. Georgia (1972) onwards; the history of public opinion and how it shapes the debate on capital punishment; the history of U.S. execution methods; deterrence; racial disparity in the application of the death penalty; wrongful convictions; the costs associated with capital punishment; and federal, military, and international death penalties. FEATURES Incorporates "Perspectives from the Field" boxes in most chapters that add valuable insights from people who have been personally involved in capital cases, including a judge, a prosecutor, a neuroscientist, a former death-row resident, and other key practitioners in the field Explores the process by which "hard" science (DNA) is used to address exoneration and mitigation, in terms that are understandable to students Includes an in-depth discussion of why we punish wrongdoers, examining why our urge to punish is so strong An open-access Companion Website provides chapter outlines, chapter learning objectives, sample quiz/exam questions, and links to helpful websites
Author : Josiah Oldfield
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN :