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02583aam a2200373 i 4500 001 DF7E7568E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 211230s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021060669 020 $a 103200990X 020 $a 9781032009902 020 $a 1032009861 020 $a 9781032009865 035 $a (OCoLC)1289235776 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV8699 U5 P55 2022 100 1 $a Phillips, Scott W. $q (Scott William), $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Geometrical justice : $b the death penalty in America / $c Scott Phillips and Mark Cooney, 264 1 $a London ; $b Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2022. 300 $a xiv, 156 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Legal decisions continue to mystify: Why was this person convicted and that person acquitted of the same crime? Why did she sue for breach of contract and he did not? Legal rules are supposed to provide answers to these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a theory that explained legal decisions, which predicted how legal cases are likely to be brought and decided? Drawing on Donald Black's theory of the behavior of law, Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America aims to offer some answers, looking specifically at who receives the death penalty in the US. Drawing on large datasets, including the Baldus study which demonstrated racial bias in sentencing decisions, this book considers the ways in which social characteristics such as race, class, moral reputation, organizational status affect legal decision making, and the wide discrepancies in the use of capital punishment. Geometrical Justice will be of interest to those engaged in criminal justice, criminology and socio-legal studies, as well as students taking courses on sentencing, corrections and capital punishment"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z United States. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z United States. $z United States. 650 0 $a Racism in criminal justice administration $z United States. 700 1 $a Cooney, Mark, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Phillips, Scott. $t Geometrical justice $d New York City : Routledge Books, 2022 $z 9781003176633 $w (DLC) 2021060670 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804011826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF7E7568E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search