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Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe Book

In this work of comparative legal history the author 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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Why is American punishment so cruel? While in continental Europe great efforts are made to guarantee that prisoners are treated humanely, in America sentences have gotten longer and rehabilitation programs have fallen by the wayside.

  • 019518260X
  • 9780195182606
  • James Q. Whitman
  • 5 May 2005
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
  • New Ed
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