Death by prison the emergence of life without parole and perpetual confinement

Death by prison the emergence of life without parole and perpetual confinement

"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 rout...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seeds, Christopher, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:
United States.
Life imprisonment > United States > History.
Réclusion à perpétuité > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
LAW / Criminal Procedure.
Life imprisonment.
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Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3289177.pdf
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Perpetual penal confinement
  • Precursor and prototype
  • The phenomenon to be explained
  • The complex role of death penalty abolition
  • The collapse of a penal paradigm
  • Governors and prisoners
  • The US Supreme Court's ambivalent crafting of LWOP
  • Abolition and the alternative
  • Life prisoners lifetime prisons
  • Conclusion.

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