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Harsh Justice : Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe by James Q. Whitman is a law available to read on EtoBox.
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Why is American punishment so cruel? While in continental Europe great efforts are made to guarantee that prisoners are treated humanely, in America sentences have gotten longer and rehabilitation programs have fallen by the wayside. Western Europe attempts to prepare its criminals for life after prison, whereas many American prisons today leave their inhabitants reduced and debased. In the last quarter of a century, Europe has worked to ensure that the baser human inclination toward vengeance i
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- Author
- James Q. Whitman
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198035312
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Social Science, Law, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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