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Harsh Justice : Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and
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Harsh Justice : Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe Paperback - 2005

by Whitman, James Q

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  • Title Harsh Justice : Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe
  • Author Whitman, James Q
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, NY
  • Date 2005-04-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 47051280-75
  • ISBN 9780195182606 / 019518260X
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.81 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.06 cm)
  • Reading level 1460
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Punishment - Philosophy, Punishment - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002004838
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.601

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First line

American punishment is comparatively harsh, comparatively degrading, comparatively slow to show mercy.

About the author

James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University. He has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools and was trained as a historian at the University of Chicago before taking his law degree at Yale.