Sentencing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578979670Author Justin LunsfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Justin Wade LunsfordPublisher Justin Wade LunsfordWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439921654Author Michael L PerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University PressPublisher Temple University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of...

All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam-- have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades. NGO Amnesty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564301Author Jason Del GandioFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

The number of people incarcerated in the United States has increased significantly over the past three decades from approximately 419,000 inmates in 1983 to approximately 1.5 million inmates in 2013. Concerns about both the economic and social...

Federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes (mandatory minimums) demand that execution or incarceration follow criminal conviction. Among other things, they cover drug dealing, murdering federal officials, and using a gun to commit a federal crime...

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines greatly influence the sentences imposed for federal crimes. Once binding on federal courts, the Guidelines are now the starting point for Federal sentencing in most cases. They provide the principal standard against...

The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay...

Argues that legal punishment censures convicted offenders and thus morally communicates with them, any victims, and the broader community, while also serving to reduce future crime.Dedicates separate chapters to sentencing, criminal procedure, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413331479Author Paul BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint NOLOPublisher NOLOWeight(grams) 953g

Terrorists, drug traffickers, Mafia members, and corrupt corporate executives have one thing in common: most are conspirators subject to federal prosecution. Federal conspiracy laws rest on the belief that criminal schemes are equally or more...

Forfeiture has long been an effective law enforcement tool. Congress and state legislatures have authorised its use for over two hundred years. Every year it redirects property worth hundreds of millions of dollars from criminal to lawful uses...

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American Sentencing surveys what is known about the hottest topic in American criminal law reform. Massive efforts are underway to make sentencing more just and sentences more effective, and to reduce the use of imprisonment. The writers are the leading...

The most commonly cited justification for international criminal law is that it addresses crimes of such gravity that they "shock the conscience of humanity." From decisions about how to define crimes and when to exercise jurisdiction, to limitations on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554888740Author Helena KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 383g

From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, "a damning portrait" (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and...

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business...

This book exposes the myriad of victims of wrongful conviction by going beyond the innocent person who has been wrongfully incarcerated to include the numerous indirect victims who suffer collaterally. In no way overlooking the egregious effects on the...

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197554685Author Christina L BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439921647Author Michael L PerlinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University PressPublisher Temple University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Reveals the secretive, inaccurate, and often violent ways that the American criminal system really works Curtis Flowers spent twenty-three years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a...

"The perfect book for the present moment. Prosecuting the President is magnificent." — David Marcus, Professor of Law, UCLA In this exceptionally timely book, law professor Andrew Coan explains what every American needs to know about special prosecutors...

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of...

The intersection between law and neuroscience has been a focus of intense research for the past decade, as an unprecedented amount of attention has been triggered by the increased use of neuroscientific evidence in courts. While the majority of this...

When is the death penalty considered "cruel and unusual punishment" or "constitutionally permissible"? This book exposes readers directly to landmark opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court that strive to answer difficult questions...

American Sentencing provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of efforts in the state and the federal systems to make sentencing fairer, reduce overuse of imprisonment, and help offenders live law-abiding lives. It addresses a variety of topics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609805678Author Mario MarazzitiFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 297g

It isn't enough to celebrate the death penalty's demise. We must learn from it.When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1984 in rural North Carolina, death sentences were commonplace. In 2014, DNA tests set McCollum free. By then, death sentences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765132821Author Michael O'HearFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This book explores criminal sentencing as a political, legal and social process, setting out a democratic account of sentencing in common law jurisdictions. Taking sentencing as a case study of public decision-making in which judges manage public...

This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application...

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction). It answers the important and controversial question: to what extent should the state mitigate sentencing for defendants who have...