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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Autor principal: Canossini, Erika (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2023
En: Punishment & society
Año: 2023, Volumen: 25, Número: 5, Páginas: 1334-1352
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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