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Title:

WRETCHED SISTERS
EXAMINING GENDER AND CAPITAL PUNISHMEND

By:

Mary Welek Atwell

Format:

Paperback

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£31.65

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£28.49

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ISBN 10:

1433122340

ISBN 13:

9781433122347

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Publisher:

PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

9 October, 2014

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Series:

Studies in Crime and Punishment 19

Pages:

307

Description:

Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.

Synopsis:

Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.

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US

Imprint:

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

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