Death by prison : the emergence of life without parole and perpetual confinement /

"In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a rout...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seeds, Christopher, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Life imprisonment > United States > History.
Réclusion à perpétuité > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
LAW / Criminal Procedure.
Life imprisonment
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Perpetual penal confinement
  • Precursor and prototype
  • The phenomenon to be explained
  • The complex role of death penalty abolition
  • The collapse of a penal paradigm
  • Governors and prisoners
  • The US Supreme Court's ambivalent crafting of LWOP
  • Abolition and the alternative
  • Life prisoners lifetime prisons
  • Conclusion.

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