Description: The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states- a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America's political institutions and cultural conflicts.
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Book Title: Peculiar Institution : America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
Item Length: 9.3in
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Item Width: 6.5in
Author: David Garland
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: History & Theory, Criminal Law / General, Sociology / Social Theory, United States / General, Criminology
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Law, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 26 Oz
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
