| Carolyn Strange - Law - 2016 - 336 pages
The pardon is an act of mercy, tied to the divine right of kings. Why did New York retain this mode of discretionary justice after the Revolution? And how did governors’ use of ... | |
| David Garland, Randall McGowen, Michael Meranze - Law - 2011 - 242 pages
"If I were asked to recommend a single book that puts the vexed and emotionally charged question of the death penalty into an intelligible historical and contemporary political ... | |
| John Hostettler - Social Science - 2016 - 224 pages
This re-issue with a new Preface of a classic work by John Hostettler looks at the political and other social dynamics behind law, order and punishment. A timeless work by one ... | |
| Carolyn Strange, Tina Merrill Loo - Political Science - 1997 - 186 pages
Examines the official institutions which regulated moral conduct in Canada, and analyses the ways in which different social groups had distinct relationships to legal modes of ... | |
| R. Follett - History - 2000 - 231 pages
Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "bloody code" of criminal statutes. This examines ... | |
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