Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, Mary Welek Atwell
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479819638)
The book is a postmortem examination of what has killed the death penalty in states across the country-- Why the death penalty is in decline across the United StatesAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-...Loe edasi...
Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, Mary Welek Atwell
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479819645)
Why the death penalty is in decline across the United StatesAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight...Loe edasi...
In his first work of non-fiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions....Loe edasi...
The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre...Loe edasi...
A first-hand account of the death penaltys wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing laws, prison policies that ensure recidivism, and classic t...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures hu...Loe edasi...
A rigorous and defiant collection that subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American culture and literature. Justin Rovillos Monson’s poetic voice is sharp and irre...Loe edasi...
This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado was...Loe edasi...
A ground-breaking treatment has been hailed as the best way of tackling crime yet. But a rehabilitation psychiatrist has uncovered a terrible flaw, allowing people to get away with murder......Loe edasi...
Art generally imitates life. This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice involved in death sentencing. Many toys and dolls are illu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Mar-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780525522157)
A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager--and its even more shocking aftermath. In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803992570)
A fascinating insight into the crimes of women, and how their executions took place From Sarah Malcolm, sentenced to be executed for multiple murders in the early eighteenth century, to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britai...Loe edasi...
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty Is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hang...Loe edasi...
Luka Kane was executed in front of a jeering crowd but before he died, he opened one pair of eyes to the truth: Chester Chilly Becketts. Except, Luka isnt dead at all. A bold escape sets in motion a race against time as Happys world-ending plans...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jan-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781524760281)
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America“If you’re o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jan-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108840729)
A radical new global reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation and global connections across th...Loe edasi...
A radical new global reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation and global connections across th...Loe edasi...
It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country’s history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices’ respe...Loe edasi...
This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India. It examines in detail the progress made by international organizations worldwide in their efforts to abolish the death penalty and provides statistics from variou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Nov-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691209883)
The Italian political and legal thinker Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is justly regarded as the founding father of the movement for criminal law reform that emerged in Europe in the mid-18th century. His treatise, On Crimes and Punishments (1764), is...Loe edasi...
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in Fr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jul-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231184427)
An innovative study of narrative construction in capital defense cases from management professor and death penalty expert. Since 1976, Texas has accounted for more than a third of the nations 1,400 executions. In cases where the prosecutor seeks th...Loe edasi...
As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in t...Loe edasi...
The death penalty is embodied in Indian law, yet there is very little known about the people who are on death row except for media reports on them. In order to explore the way the prisoners on death row experience and perceive their lives and make me...Loe edasi...
A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran’s criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentences—according to Amnesty Inte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691172033)
A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retribution. Irans criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentences-according to Amnesty International, the...Loe edasi...
By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, ISBN-13: 9781913107529)
The macabre, interwoven histories of art and punishment in eighteenth-century London Over the course of the eighteenth century, the visual arts in Britain flourished as never before. The nation’s first art academies were founded; its...Loe edasi...
When architecture serves as a tool for punishment through confinement and isolation, every design choice affects lives. What is prison architecture? Where do spaces of incarceration from jails to migration camps and beyond materialize? How do their...Loe edasi...
Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, Mary Welek Atwell
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479819638)
The book is a postmortem examination of what has killed the death penalty in states across the country-- Why the death penalty is in decline across the United StatesAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-...Loe edasi...
Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, Mary Welek Atwell
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479819645)
Why the death penalty is in decline across the United StatesAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight...Loe edasi...
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions....Loe edasi...
( A) vivid, inquiring memoir... A properly soul-searching book Observer The powerful and emotive memoir about one mans relationship with his father and the stigma around mental illness, from the acclaimed author and human rights lawyer Cl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781772035186)
Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumachs Gold is examined in riveting forensic detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic. Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268209971)
Why is the Catholic Church against the death penalty? This second edition of Brugger’s classic work Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken over the centuries to its present posit...Loe edasi...
In his first work of non-fiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803929149)
The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society presents a multidisciplinary overview of capital punishments influences, processes and outcomes across society. A global range of philosophers, social scientists, legal experts, political theori...Loe edasi...
The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre...Loe edasi...
A first-hand account of the death penaltys wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing laws, prison policies that ensure recidivism, and classic t...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures hu...Loe edasi...
A rigorous and defiant collection that subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American culture and literature. Justin Rovillos Monson’s poetic voice is sharp and irre...Loe edasi...
This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado was...Loe edasi...
Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between th...Loe edasi...
Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between th...Loe edasi...
Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between th...Loe edasi...
A ground-breaking treatment has been hailed as the best way of tackling crime yet. But a rehabilitation psychiatrist has uncovered a terrible flaw, allowing people to get away with murder......Loe edasi...
