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  • DeathQuest

    An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

    This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times, and then examines the moral and legal arguments for and against capital punishment. It also provides an overview of major Supreme Court decisions and ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Death Penalty Today

    Edición de Robert M. Bohm ...
    More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of wrongful conviction, inhumane practices, and its efficacy as a deterrent are hotly debated topics. As of August 2007, two-thirds of the world’s countries have abolished the death penalty. Today, the US falls alongside Iran, Iraq, Sudan, China, and Pakistan as countries ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment

    Edición de Robert M. Bohm, Gavin Lee ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology. Over the last decade or so, the United States has experienced a significant decline in the number of death sentences and executions. Since 2007, eight states have abolished capital punishment, bringing the total number of states without the death penalty to 19, plus ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Leer más

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  • Race, Crime, and the Law

    **An "admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race" (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before."This book should be a standard for all law students."—Boston Globe**In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Debating the Death Penalty

    Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case

    Edición de Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Myth of Overpunishment

    A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public

    Justice is on trial in the United States.From police to prisons, the justice system is accused of overpunishing. It is said that too many Americans are abused by the police, arrested, jailed, and imprisoned. But the denunciations are overblown. The data indicates, contrary to the critics, that we don’t imprison too many, nor do we overpunish. This becomes evident when we examine the crimes of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of American Prisons

    Series series Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
    Original essays by corrections experts The United States has the lightest incarceration rate in the world and crime is one of the major driving forces of political discourse throughout the country. Information about penal institutions, imprisonment, and prisoners is important to everyone, from judges on the bench to citizens on the street. Now for the first time, a comprehensive reference work ... Leer más

    $345.99 USD

  • Courting Death

    The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

    Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time.In the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Wrongful Conviction

    International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice

    Edición de C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias ...
    Imperfections in the criminal justice system have long intrigued the general public and worried scholars and legal practitioners. In Wrongful Conviction, criminologists C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias present an important collection of essays that analyzes cases of injustice across an array of legal systems, with contributors from North America, Europe and Israel. This collection includes a ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Wrongful Convictions

    Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems

    Edición de C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias’ earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways:? (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

    Edición de Mary F. Bosworth ...
    Click ′Additional Materials′ for downloadable samplesThe two-volume Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a fact that has caused lawmakers, advocates, and legal professionals to rethink punishment policies as well ... Leer más

    $331.99 USD