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How And Why Is The American Punishment System "Exceptional"?, Christopher Slobogin
How And Why Is The American Punishment System "Exceptional"?, Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Anyone interested in American criminal justice has to wonder why we have so many more people in prison—in absolute as well as relative terms—than the western half of the European continent, the part of the world most readily comparable to us. This book, consisting of eleven chapters by eminent criminal law scholars, criminologists and political scientists, provides both a detailed look at how U.S. punishment is different and an insightful analysis of why that might be so. While many chapters in the book describe previously declared positions of the authors, there is also much that is new in the book, …
Life-Without-Parole: An Alternative To Death Or Not Much Of A Life At All?, Julian H. Wright, Jr.
Life-Without-Parole: An Alternative To Death Or Not Much Of A Life At All?, Julian H. Wright, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Note will discuss the relatively recent development and current prevalence of one alternative: the life sentence without benefit of parole, commonly called life-without-parole (LWOP). Life-without-parole is the penultimate penalty, meaning in theory the incarceration of convicts for their natural lives without the possibility of release on parole. In practice, LWOP generally means what it says, although various states do retain some release mechanisms for LWOP inmates, like executive commutation or a set term of years. The idea of jailing individuals for the rest of their lives is at least as old in the Western legal tradition as the Tower …
The Decline Of The Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy And Social Idea, Louis A. Jacobs
The Decline Of The Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy And Social Idea, Louis A. Jacobs
Vanderbilt Law Review
In his most recent contribution Professor Francis Allen suggests that the rehabilitative ideal can flourish only in a particular kind of society. He observes that today's American society lacks the nourishing characteristics that once fed that ideal; consequently, the ideal has withered. This argument is concisely and precisely constructed in The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal, a book derived from the 1979 Starrs Lectures on Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. Rather than describe the extent of the decline, Professor Allen focuses on the nexus raised in the book's subtitle--penal policy and social purpose. As social purpose evolved (perhaps "devolved"is more …