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Prisons 2000: An International Perspective on the Current State and Future of Imprisonment

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Price: $27.03

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 1996-07-01

Seller ID: M0312160968Z2

ISBN: 0312160968

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The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (The Cultural Lives of Law)

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Price: $2.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press: 2005-05-27

Seller ID: M0804752346Z2

ISBN: 0804752346

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How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? In this volume the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty we need to know more about the "cultural lives"-past and present-of the state's ultimate sanction.
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Reshaping Probation and Prisons: The New Offender Management Framework (Researching Criminal Justice)

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Price: $8.99

Publisher: Policy Press: 2006-01-11

Seller ID: M1861348126Z2

ISBN: 1861348126

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Welcome To Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row

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Price: $4.26

Publisher: Northeastern University Press: 2004-12-09

Seller ID: M1555536360Z3

ISBN: 1555536360

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Consisting of letters and other writings from inmates to members of LifeLines, an organization of pen friends based in the United Kingdom, Welcome to Hell vividly conveys daily life on death row. Ranging from simple descriptions of cockroach races and a typewriter repaired with rubber bands and a toothbrush, to profoundly affecting glimpses into horrific abusive childhoods, to eloquent, emotionally powerful statements about facing execution, these remarkable letters reveal the human side of capital punishment. The second edition includes new chapters that focus in particular on how inmates, kn...
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The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (The Cultural Lives of Law)

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Price: $25.14

Publisher: Stanford University Press: 2005-06-02

Seller ID: M0804752338Z3

ISBN: 0804752338

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How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?
After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "cultural lives" past and present of the state s ultimate sanction....
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Beyond Repair?: Americaï¿½s Death Penalty (Constitutional Conflicts)

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Price: $2.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2002-11-22

Seller ID: M0822330431Z2

ISBN: 0822330431

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Can the death penalty be administered in a just way--without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists explore in Beyond Repair? All new, the essays in this collection focus on the period since 1976, when the Supreme Court held that capital punishment, in and of itself, does not violate the Constitution. In addition to reflecting on the most recent developments in the law, the contributors dra...
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Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice (Law and Society)

By: Acorn, Annalise

Price: $29.02

Publisher: UBC Press: 2005-01-01

Seller ID: M0774809434Z3

ISBN: 0774809434

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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 18501935

By: Aguirre, Carlos

Price: $15.84

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2005-01-27

Seller ID: 0822334577-01

ISBN: 0822334577

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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850ï¿½1935

By: Aguirre, Carlos

Price: $20.46

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2005-01-27

Seller ID: M0822334690Z2

ISBN: 0822334690

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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850ï¿½1935

By: Aguirre, Carlos

Price: $12.61

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2005-01-27

Seller ID: M0822334577Z3

ISBN: 0822334577

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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception--in the early 1850s--of the initial plans to build penitentiaries through the early-twentieth-century prison reforms undertaken as part of President Augusto Leguia's attempts to modernize and expand the Peruvian state. Aguirre reconstructs the social, cultural, and doctrinal influences that determined how lawbreakers were treated, how programs of prison refo...
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