With an outstanding list of contributors edited by a leading authority on punishment, this volume demonstrates that the largest problems of crime and justice cannot be brought into focus from the perspective of single jurisdiction, and that comparative inquiries are necessary for an understanding of the current predicament in the US.
With an outstanding list of contributors edited by a leading authority on punishment, this volume demonstrates that the largest problems of crime and justice cannot be brought into focus from the perspective of single jurisdiction, and that comparative inquiries are necessary for an understanding of the current predicament in the US.
Kevin R. Reitz is James Annenberg La Vea Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Contributors * List of Figures and Tables * Introduction, Kevin Reitz * Part 1: American Exceptionalism: Perspectives * Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment, and Disadvantage: Race, Federalization, and Politicization in the Perspective of Local Autonomy, Nicola Lacey and David Soskice * Chapter 2: The Concept of American Exceptionalism and the Case of Capital Punishment, David Garland * Chapter 3: Penal Optimism: Understanding American Mass Imprisonment from a Canadian Perspective, Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob * Chapter 4: The Complications of Penal Federalism: American Exceptionalism or Fifty Different Countries?, Franklin E. Zimring * Part 2: American Exceptionalism in Crime * Chapter 5: American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective: Explaining Trends and Variation in the Use of Incarceration, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä * Chapter 6: How Exceptional Is the History of Violence and Criminal Justice in the United States? Variation across Time and Space as the Keys to Understanding Homicide and Punitiveness, Randolph Roth * Chapter 7: Making the State Pay: Violence and the Politicization of Crime in Comparative Perspective, Lisa L. Miller * Chapter 8: Comparing Serious Violent Crime in the United States and England and Wales: Why it Matters, and How It Can be Done, Zelia Gallo, Nicola Lacey, and David Soskice * Part 3 * Chapter 9: American Exceptionalism in Community Supervision: A Comparative Analysis of Probation in the United States, Scotland, and Sweden, Edward E. Rhine and Faye S. Taxman * Chapter 10: American Exceptionalism in Parole Release and Supervision: A European Perspective, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Alessandro Corda * 11. Collateral Sanctions and American Exceptionalism: A Comparative Perspective, Nora V. Demleitner * Notes * References * Index
* List of Contributors * List of Figures and Tables * Introduction, Kevin Reitz * Part 1: American Exceptionalism: Perspectives * Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment, and Disadvantage: Race, Federalization, and Politicization in the Perspective of Local Autonomy, Nicola Lacey and David Soskice * Chapter 2: The Concept of American Exceptionalism and the Case of Capital Punishment, David Garland * Chapter 3: Penal Optimism: Understanding American Mass Imprisonment from a Canadian Perspective, Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob * Chapter 4: The Complications of Penal Federalism: American Exceptionalism or Fifty Different Countries?, Franklin E. Zimring * Part 2: American Exceptionalism in Crime * Chapter 5: American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective: Explaining Trends and Variation in the Use of Incarceration, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä * Chapter 6: How Exceptional Is the History of Violence and Criminal Justice in the United States? Variation across Time and Space as the Keys to Understanding Homicide and Punitiveness, Randolph Roth * Chapter 7: Making the State Pay: Violence and the Politicization of Crime in Comparative Perspective, Lisa L. Miller * Chapter 8: Comparing Serious Violent Crime in the United States and England and Wales: Why it Matters, and How It Can be Done, Zelia Gallo, Nicola Lacey, and David Soskice * Part 3 * Chapter 9: American Exceptionalism in Community Supervision: A Comparative Analysis of Probation in the United States, Scotland, and Sweden, Edward E. Rhine and Faye S. Taxman * Chapter 10: American Exceptionalism in Parole Release and Supervision: A European Perspective, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Alessandro Corda * 11. Collateral Sanctions and American Exceptionalism: A Comparative Perspective, Nora V. Demleitner * Notes * References * Index
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