Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and EuropeCriminal 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. |
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Harsh justice: criminal punishment and the widening divide between America and Europe
Käyttäjän arvio - Not Available - Book VerdictWhitman (law, Yale) decries the increasingly cruel, inhumane, and degrading forms of criminal punishment growing in popularity and use in our society. He chronicles how this development began with New ... Lue koko arvostelu
Sisältö
| 3 | |
1 Degradation Harshness and Mercy | 19 |
Rejecting Respect for Persons | 41 |
3 Continental Dignity and Mildness | 69 |
4 The Continental Abolition of Degradation | 97 |
5 Low Status in the AngloAmerican World | 151 |
Two Revolutions of Status | 191 |
Notes | 209 |
| 273 | |
| 301 | |
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Kirjaluettelon tiedot
| Otsikko | Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe |
| Kirjoittaja | James Q. Whitman |
| Painos | uusintapainos |
| Kustantaja | Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0198035314, 9780198035312 |
| Pituus | 336 sivua |
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