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HARSH JUSTICE
CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WIDENING DIVIDE BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE |
| By: |
James Q. Whitman |
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Paperback |
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£37.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019518260X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195182606 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
18 March, 2005 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Paperback edition of cloth edition originally published in September 2003. Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading - more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prision 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 socomparatively 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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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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4 halftones, 10 plates |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Prizes: |
Winner of 2004 Distinguished Book Award of the Division of International |
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