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OverviewIn 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 part of contemporary US criminal justice, even engrained in the nation's cultural imaginary, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisoning a person until death was an extraordinary sentence; today, it accounts for an increasing percentage of all US prisoners. What explains the shifts in penal practice and the social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning individuals until death without any reevaluation or reasonable 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. The rise of life without parole, this book demonstrates, is not simply a matter of growth: it is a phenomenon of change, inclusive of changes in definitions, practices, and meanings. Death by Prison shows that the complex processes by which life without parole became imprisonment until death and perpetual confinement became a routine part of American punishment must be understood not only in terms of punitive attitudes and political efforts but as a matter of background conditions and transformations in penal institutions. The book also reveals how the social and sociological relevance of life without parole extends beyond its punitive element: imbued in the history of life without parole are a variety of forms of disregard—for human dignity, for social consequences, and for the myriad responsibilities that go along with state punishment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher SeedsPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520379985ISBN 10: 0520379985 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 12 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviews"""Seeds does a masterful job of busting the myth of how [life without parole] replaced the death penalty."" * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *" Author InformationChristopher Seeds is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |