Author: Mark A. Siegel
Publisher: Information Plus (TX)
Keywords: punishment, effective, capital
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1991-12
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1878623184
ISBN-13: 9781878623188

Author: Mary Welek Atwell
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: punishment, studies, crime, capital, gender, sisters, examining, wretched
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2007-08
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0820478830
ISBN-13: 9780820478838

Since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976, eleven women have been put to death for murder. Each case involves a personal story with unique tragic elements. Yet common themes reflect how the criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particular gendered context. Wretched Sisters offers an analysis of the legal and popular cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death, and provides an empathetic account of how these eleven came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.

Author: Justin Fernandez
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: punishment, crimes, justice, crime, victimless
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0791042782
ISBN-13: 9780791042786

Author: H. E. Goema
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: punishment, war
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0691049440
ISBN-13: 9780691049441

What makes wars drag on and why do they end when they do? Here H. E. Goemans brings theoretical rigor and empirical depth to a long-standing question of securities studies. He explores how various government leaders assess the cost of war in terms of domestic politics and their own postwar fates. Goemans first develops the argument that two sides will wage war until both gain sufficient knowledge of the other’s strengths and weaknesses so as to agree on the probable outcome of continued war. Yet the incentives that motivate leaders to then terminate war, Goemans maintains, can vary great

Author: David Boonin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: punishment, problem
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 052170961X
ISBN-13: 9780521709613

In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by c

Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: Picador USA
Keywords: punishment, ultimate
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-02
List price: $26.85
ISBN-10: 0330426885
ISBN-13: 9780330426886

As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his recent service on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan’s unprecedented commutation of th

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: punishment, crime
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1443733253
ISBN-13: 9781443733250

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.