Death by Prison : The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinem...

by Christopher Seeds

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Death by Prison : The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement, Hardcover by Seeds, Christopher, ISBN 0520379977, ISBN-13 9780520379978, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice,and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine part of contemporary US criminal justice, even engrained in the nation's cultural imaginary, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisoning a person until death was an extraordinary sentence; today, it accounts for an increasing percentage of all US prisoners. What explains the shifts in penal practice and the social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning individuals until death without any reevaluation or reasonable expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny fortoo long. The rise of life without parole, this book demonstrates, is not simply a matter of growth: it is a phenomenon of change, inclusive of changes in definitions, practices, and meanings. Death by Prison shows that the complex processes by which life without parole became imprisonme

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780520379978
• Condition: Fine

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