Peculiar Institution America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

Name: Peculiar Institution America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
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ISBN: 9780674066106

ISBN-10: 0674066103

ISBN-13: 9780674066106

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Garland

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The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.94" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English