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Harsh Justice
Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe
Taschenbuch von James Whitman
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University. He has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools and was trained as a historian at the University of Chicago before taking his law degree at Yale.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Degradation, Harshness, and Mercy

  • 2: Contemporary American Harshness: Rejecting Respect for Persons

  • 3: Continental Dignity and Mildness

  • 4: The Continental Abolition of Degradation

  • 5: Low Status in the Anglo-American World

  • Conclusion: Two Revolutions of Status

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195182606
ISBN-10: 019518260X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Whitman, James
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: James Whitman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2005
Gewicht: 0,54 kg
Artikel-ID: 120657879
Über den Autor
James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University. He has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools and was trained as a historian at the University of Chicago before taking his law degree at Yale.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Degradation, Harshness, and Mercy

  • 2: Contemporary American Harshness: Rejecting Respect for Persons

  • 3: Continental Dignity and Mildness

  • 4: The Continental Abolition of Degradation

  • 5: Low Status in the Anglo-American World

  • Conclusion: Two Revolutions of Status

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195182606
ISBN-10: 019518260X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Whitman, James
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: James Whitman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2005
Gewicht: 0,54 kg
Artikel-ID: 120657879
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