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By James Q. Whitman

legal punishment in the US is harsh and degrading--more so than at any place else within the liberal west. Executions and lengthy criminal phrases are standard in the USA. nations like France and Germany, against this, are systematically light. eu offenders are infrequently despatched to criminal, and once they are, they serve a ways shorter phrases than their American opposite numbers. Why is the US so relatively harsh? during this novel paintings of comparative criminal heritage, James Whitman argues that the reply lies in America's positive include of a non-hierarchical social method and mistrust of kingdom energy that have contributed to a legislations of punishment that's extra prepared to degrade offenders.

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