Death by Prison

The Emergence of Life without Parole and Perpetual Confinement

Christopher Seeds (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37998-5 (ISBN)

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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 practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or 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 for too long.

Christopher Seeds is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine.

Contents

Introduction

Part I Foundations
1. Perpetual Penal Confinement
2. Precursor and Prototype
3. The Phenomenon to Be Explained

Part II Eruptions
4. The Complex Role of Death Penalty Abolition
5. The Collapse of a Penal Paradigm
6. Governors and Prisoners

Part III Adaptation and Solidification
7. The US Supreme Court’s Ambivalent Crafting of LWOP
8. Abolition and the Alternative
9. Life Prisoners, Lifetime Prisons

Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w illustrations, 1 map and 2 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10	0-520-37998-5 / 0520379985
ISBN-13	978-0-520-37998-5 / 9780520379985
Zustand	Neuware