| Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty? Contributor(s): Ogletree Jr, Charles J. (Editor), Sarat, Austin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814762484 ISBN-13: 9780814762486 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Political Science | American Government - Judicial Branch - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 364.65 |
| LCCN: 2012005678 |
| Series: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Race and Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 minorities? What are the most promising avenues for limiting, reforming, or eliminating life without parole sentences in the United States? Contributors explore the structure of life without parole sentences and the impact they have on prisoners, where the penalty fits in modern theories of punishment, and prospects for (as well as challenges to) reform. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sarat, Austin: - Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Previous collaborations for NYU Press with Charles J. Ogletree include From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006), When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarraiges of Justice (2009), and The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (2010).Jr, Charles J. Ogletree: - Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. He is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (WW Norton and Company, 2004) and Co-Author of From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America. |