Wretched Sisters
Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend
(Sprache: Englisch)
Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.
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Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.
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Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.
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Contents: Why So Few and Why These Few? Gender and Criminology - A Capriciously Selected Random Handful - Setting Precedent - She Didn't Look Like a Killer - Domestic Offenses - The Oklahoma Three - Aggravating Circumstances: Killing Children and Cops - The «Monster» - Perilously Close to Simple Murder - Not The «Triggerman» - #500 and #510 - Lessons from Wretched Sisters.
Autoren-Porträt von Mary Welek Atwell
Mary Welek Atwell holds a PhD in history from Saint Louis University. She is Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice at Radford University. She is the author of Equal Protection of the Law: Gender and Justice in the United States (2002) and Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment (2004).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Welek Atwell
- 2014, 2., überarb. Aufl., X, 307 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1433122340
- ISBN-13: 9781433122347
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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