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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles J Ogletree; Austin Sarat |
| ISBN: | 9780814762479 0814762476 9780814762486 0814762484 9780814762493 0814762492 |
| OCLC Number: | 764339553 |
| Description: | ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Lives on the line : from capital punishment to life without parole / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat -- Mandatory life and death of equitable discretion / Josh Bowers -- Death-in-prison sentences : overutilized and underscrutinized / Jessica S. Henry -- Creating the permanent prisoner / Sharon Dolovich -- Life without parole under modern theories of punishment / Paul H. Robinson -- Defending life / I. Bennett Capers -- Life without parole and the hope for real sentencing reform / Rachel E. Barkow -- No way out? Life sentences and the politics of penal reform / Marie Gottschalk -- Dignity and risk : the long road from Graham v. Florida to abolition of life without parole / Jonathan Simon. |
| Series Title: | Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat. |
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"One frightening by-product of the American struggle over capital punishment is the proliferation of Life Without Parole as its bastard offspring. LWOP is embraced without scrutiny by abolitionists who assume that anything is better than execution. It is enshrined as a prosecutorial consolation prize when cases meet the technical standards for 'capital' murder but defendants lack blameworthiness. The unqualified condemnation of LWOP comes from a crazy displacement of distrust that puts extra suffering on offenders because citizens don't trust those who govern. Fighting capital punishment must be a central concern in the United States. But threats to human rights rarely develop one at a time, so injustice must be fought on multiple fields of engagement. Ogletree, Sarat, and their distinguished contributors perform an important public service by taking a sustained look at yet another dangerous punitive excess." Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley Read more...
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- Parole -- United States.
- Life imprisonment -- United States.
- Capital punishment -- United States.
- LAW / General.
- LAW / Criminal Law / General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
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