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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2021
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Crime and justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 425-464 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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