Death by prison : the emergence of life without parole and perpetual confinement / Christopher Seeds.
"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 rout...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Perpetual penal confinement
- Precursor and prototype
- The phenomenon to be explained
- The complex role of death penalty abolition
- The collapse of a penal paradigm
- Governors and prisoners
- The US Supreme Court's ambivalent crafting of LWOP
- Abolition and the alternative
- Life prisoners lifetime prisons
- Conclusion.