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Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to ...

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 ...
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America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present

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 ...
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The Politics of Punishment

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 ...
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Making Good: Law and Moral Regulation in Canada, 1867-1939

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 ...
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Griffith Taylor: Visionary Environmentalist Explorer

Carolyn Strange, Alison Bashford - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 292 pages
Thomas Griffith Taylor (18801963) was a geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. His travels took him from Captain Scotts final expedition in Antarctica to every ...
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Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Carolyn Strange, Robert Cribb, Christopher E. Forth - History - 2014 - 208 pages
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and ...
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Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law: Reform in ...

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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