Justifying leniency at a time of punitiveness: Federal clemency narratives in the United States
Scholarship on contemporary US penality has paid little attention to practices opposing the punitive trend. This study explores clemency – official acts moderating punishment and its lasting consequences – as an executive back-end mechanism of leniency. To explore how clemency is discussed at a time...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Punishment & society
Year: 2023, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 1334-1352 |
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