Fatalism and indifference: the influence of the frontier on american criminal justice

American criminal laws and criminal justice systems are harsher, more punitive, more afflicted by racial disparities and injustices, more indifferent to suffering, and less respectful of human dignity than those of other Western countries. The explanations usually offered—rising crime rates in the 1...

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Main Author: Tonry, Michael H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Crime and justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 425-464
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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