Harsh Justice Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe

Name: Harsh Justice Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe
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ISBN: 9780195182606

ISBN-10: 019518260X

ISBN-13: 9780195182606

Edition: 2005

Authors: James Q. Whitman

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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.

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Liam Matthew Brockey is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University.James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School.



Introduction



Degradation, Harshness, and Mercy



Contemporary American Harshness: Rejecting Respect for Persons



Continental Dignity and Mildness



The Continental Abolition of Degradation



Low Status in the Anglo-American World


Conclusion: Two Revolutions of Status


Notes


Bibliography


Index