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Life without Parole : America's New Death Penalty?.
Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as "the new death penalty". Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race & Justice.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as "the new death penalty". Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its social, cultural, political, and legal meanings. What justifies the turn to life imprisonment? How should we understand the fact that this penalty is used disproportionately against racial. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814723999 0814723993 9780814762493 0814762492 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |