Death by Prison - Christopher Seeds - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk
In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny for too long.
Death by Prison - The Emergence of Life without Parole and Perpetual Confinement - Bog af Christopher Seeds - Paperback
\A masterful account of how a shockingly cruel punishment became a widespread practice in the United States. Anyone seeking to understand the origins, development, and tenacity of the carceral state must reckon with this compelling analysis of how life in prison without the possibility of parole became a routine punishment, part by design and part by disregard, thanks to a wide swath of lawyers, judges, policymakers, prison administrators, and interest groups.\--Marie Gottschalk, author of Caught:..
Death by Prison - The Emergence of Life without Parole and Perpetual Confinement - Christopher Seeds
\A masterful account of how a shockingly cruel punishment became a widespread practice in the United States. Anyone seeking to understand the origins, development, and tenacity of the carceral state must reckon with this compelling analysis of how life in prison without the possibility of parole became a routine punishment, part by design and part by disregard, thanks to a wide swath of lawyers, judges, policymakers, prison administrators, and interest groups.\--Marie Gottschalk, author of Caught:..