Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions at the heart of the increasing...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Austin Sarat.
On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous ...that society has a right to demand the ultimate penal...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9780762312726
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers several social science d...
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014,...
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014,...
The question of how law matters has long been fundamental to the law and society field. Social science scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that law matters less, or differen...
Fundamental Issues in Law and Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9780810114371
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti nidottu
Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases, the second volume in the series, asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live everyday, and how law responds to disruptions...
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9780814740217
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African Ameri...
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory...
Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781107008434
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli englanti sidottu
Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions...
Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781107614321
Julkaistu 2013 Kieli englanti pokkari
Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions...
The Death Penalty on the Ballot
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781108482103
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti sidottu
Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America, this book poses the question: can ending the death penalty be done democratically? How is it that a...
The Death Penalty on the Ballot
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781108711579
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti pokkari
Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America, this book poses the question: can ending the death penalty be done democratically? How is it that a...
Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781503633537
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti pokkari
With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but. From the beginning of the Republic, this cou...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781848556522
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" contains a Special Issue on crime and criminal justice. It brings together the work of scholars whose work usefully illumi...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781848559301
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in t...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Austin Sarat · ISBN 9781849506151
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events. Some attract wide attention; others mostly escape notice. Indeed in the United States trials have recently become rare, with...
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
Austin Sarat; William L. F. Felstiner · ISBN 9780195063875
Julkaistu 1996 Kieli englanti sidottu
Based on in-person observations of lawyer-client interactions in divorce, this new work provides a unique perspective on the power dynamics of their relationship.
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients
Austin Sarat; William L. F. Felstiner · ISBN 9780195117998
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti nidottu
Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences this book charts the complicated and shifting relationships between lawyers and clients as they work out the strategy and tactics of...
The Fate of Law
Austin Sarat; Thomas R. (EDT) Kearns · ISBN 9780472082391
Julkaistu 1993 Kieli englanti pokkari