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020 _a9781003176633
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024 7 _a10.4324/9781003176633
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)1290721684
035 _a(OCoLC-P)1290721684
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082 0 0 _a364.660973
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100 1 _aPhillips, Scott W.
_q(Scott William),
_d1961-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGeometrical justice :
_bthe death penalty in America /
_cScott Phillips and Mark Cooney,
264 1 _aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;
_aNew York City :
_bRoutledge Books,
_c2022.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
520 _a"Legal decisions continue to mystify: Why was this person convicted and that person acquitted of the same crime? Why did she sue for breach of contract and he did not? Legal rules are supposed to provide answers to these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a theory that explained legal decisions, which predicted how legal cases are likely to be brought and decided? Drawing on Donald Black's theory of the behavior of law, Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America aims to offer some answers, looking specifically at who receives the death penalty in the US. Drawing on large datasets, including the Baldus study which demonstrated racial bias in sentencing decisions, this book considers the ways in which social characteristics such as race, class, moral reputation, organizational status affect legal decision making, and the wide discrepancies in the use of capital punishment. Geometrical Justice will be of interest to those engaged in criminal justice, criminology and socio-legal studies, as well as students taking courses on sentencing, corrections and capital punishment"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 0 _aCapital punishment
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCapital punishment
_zMoral and ethical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRacism in criminal justice administration
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
_2bisacsh
700 1 _aCooney, Mark,
_eauthor.
856 4 0 _3Taylor & Francis
_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003176633
856 4 2 _3OCLC metadata license agreement
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