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Author | : James Q. Whitman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0198035314 |
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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.
Author | : Sandy Cook |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999-12-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781555534110 |
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A pioneering collection of personal accounts from criminal justice scholars, practitioners, and activists, and from current and former prisoners themselves.
Author | : Anne-Marie Cusac |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300155492 |
Download Cruel and Unusual Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.
Author | : Elizabeth T. Gershoff |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3319148184 |
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This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of school corporal punishment, nearly 200,000 children are paddled in schools each year. Most Americans are unaware of this fact or the physical injuries sustained by countless school children who are hit with objects by school personnel in the name of discipline. Therefore, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools begins by summarizing the legal basis for school corporal punishment and trends in Americans’ attitudes about it. It then presents trends in the use of school corporal punishment in the United States over time to establish its past and current prevalence. It then discusses what is known about the effects of school corporal punishment on children, though with so little research on this topic, much of the relevant literature is focused on parents’ use of corporal punishment with their children. It also provides results from a policy analysis that examines the effect of state-level school corporal punishment bans on trends in juvenile crime. It concludes by discussing potential legal, policy, and advocacy avenues for abolition of school corporal punishment at the state and federal levels as well as summarizing how school corporal punishment is being used and what its potential implications are for thousands of individual students and for the society at large. As school corporal punishment becomes more and more regulated at the state level, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools serves an essential guide for policymakers and advocates across the country as well as for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students.
Author | : Austin Sarat |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1479861952 |
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Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.
Author | : Larry Charles Berkson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307819299 |
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A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author | : Aaron Kupchik |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520284194 |
Download The Real School Safety Problem Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Schools across the U.S. look very different today than they did a generation ago. Police officers, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and high suspension rates have become commonplace. The Real School Safety Problem uncovers the unintended but far-reaching effects of harsh school discipline climates. Evidence shows that current school security practices may do more harm than good by broadly affecting the entire family, encouraging less civic participation in adulthood, and garnering future financial costs in the form of high rates of arrests, incarceration, and unemployment. This text presents a blueprint for reform that emphasizes problem-solving and accountability while encouraging the need to implement smarter school policies.Ê
Author | : Brian Jarvis |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Explores who -- and why -- American society punishes, using examples from literature and film.
Author | : Joseph A. Melusky |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2003-02-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1576076059 |
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In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.S. history, Cruel and Unusual Punishment stands out as a levelheaded, even-handed, and thorough analysis of the issue. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution created one of the nation's most valued freedoms but, at the same time, one of its most persistent controversies. On 184 separate occasions, the Supreme Court attempted to decide what constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." Constitutional scholars Joseph A. Melusky and Judge Keith A. Pesto help readers make sense of the controversy. The authors begin by sketching the context of the debate in a general overview that addresses issues such as excessive bails and fines, and noncapital offenses. But their primary focus is capital punishment. In a detailed, chronologically ordered discussion, they trace the evolving opinion of the nation's highest court from the late 19th century to the present, analyzing issues, arguments, holdings, and outcomes.