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Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
United States of America V. Barker
Author: THE UNITED STATES v. BARKER, 15 U.S. 395 (1817)
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
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United States of America V. Silva
Author: United States of America V. Barker
Author: The Politics of Imprisonment
Author: Vanessa BarkerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199708468
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The attention devoted to the unprecedented levels of imprisonment in the United States obscure an obvious but understudied aspect of criminal justice: there is no consistent punishment policy across the U.S. It is up to individual states to administer their criminal justice systems, and the differences among them are vast. For example, while some states enforce mandatory minimum sentencing, some even implementing harsh and degrading practices, others rely on community sanctions. What accounts for these differences? The Politics of Imprisonment seeks to document and explain variation in American penal sanctioning, drawing out the larger lessons for America's overreliance on imprisonment. Grounding her study in a comparison of how California, Washington, and New York each developed distinctive penal regimes in the late 1960s and early 1970s--a critical period in the history of crime control policy and a time of unsettling social change--Vanessa Barker concretely demonstrates that subtle but crucial differences in political institutions, democratic traditions, and social trust shape the way American states punish offenders. Barker argues that the apparent link between public participation, punitiveness, and harsh justice is not universal but dependent upon the varying institutional contexts and patterns of civic engagement within the U.S. and across liberal democracies. A bracing examination of the relationship between punishment and democracy, The Politics of Imprisonment not only suggests that increased public participation in the political process can support and sustain less coercive penal regimes, but also warns that it is precisely a lack of civic engagement that may underpin mass incarceration in the United States.
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution
Author: Gordon S. BarkerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786469870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. African Americans and white abolitionists seized upon these dramatic events to exhort citizens to complete the Revolution by extending liberty to all Americans. Casting fugitive slaves and their slave revolt leaders as heroic American Revolutionaries seeking freedom for themselves and their enslaved brethren, this book provides a broader interpretation of the American Revolution.
United States of America V. Thompson
Author: United States of America V. Anton
Author: Native Acts
Author: Joanne BarkerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An exciting series combining a strong teenage appeal with a clear structural syllabus.
Indexed Digest of the United States Supreme Court Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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