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050 4 $aK5103.W48 2005
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100 1 $aWhitman, James Q.$eAuthor
210 10 $aHarsh Justice
245 10 $aHarsh Justice$h[electronic resource]:$bCriminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe
260 $aNew York : $bOxford University Press, Incorporated$cApril 2005
506 $aLicense restrictions may limit access.
520 8 $aAnnotation$bCriminal 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.
521 $aTrade$bOxford University Press, Incorporated
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10297014$zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Law
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920 40 $zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Law$uhttps://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195182606.001.0001/acprof-9780195182606
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