Qualities of Mercy: Justice, Punishment, and Discretion
Carolyn Strange
Qualities of Mercy deals with the history of mercy, the remittance of punishments in the criminal law. The writers probe the discretionary use of power and inquire how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law. Drawing on the history of England, Canada, and Australia in periods when both capital and corporal punishment were still practised, they show that contrary to common assumptions the past was not a time of unmitigated terror and they ask what inspired restraint in punishment. They conclude that the ability to decide who lived and died -- through the exercise or denial of mercy -- reinforced the power structure.
年:
1996
出版社:
University of British Columbia Press
语言:
english
页:
186
ISBN 10:
0774805846
ISBN 13:
9780774805841
文件:
PDF, 12.20 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996
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