Harsh Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harsh Justice write by James Q. Whitman. This book was released on 2005-04-14. Harsh Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rough Justice
Rough Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rough Justice write by Michael James Pfeifer. This book was released on 2004. Rough Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century. This work examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions.
Rough Justice
Rough Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rough Justice write by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. This book was released on 1898. Rough Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Good Punishment?
Good Punishment? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good Punishment? write by James Samuel Logan. This book was released on 2008-01-02. Good Punishment? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author critiques the American obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it "retributive degradation" of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines - social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of religion - as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large, unprecedented scale. The book develops a Christian social ethics of "good punishment" embodied as a politics of "healing memories" and "ontological intimacy"
Caught
Caught - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caught write by Marie Gottschalk. This book was released on 2016-02-16. Caught available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in America The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rights, and citizenship—posing a formidable political and social challenge. In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies—one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvestment, and reducing recidivism. With a new preface evaluating the effectiveness of recent proposals to reform mass incarceration, Caught offers a bracing appraisal of the politics of penal reform.
