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Author:

Strange, Carolyn, 1959- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91000278

Title:

Discretionary justice : pardon and parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression / Carolyn Strange.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016?

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Pardon--New York (State)--History.
Parole--New York (State)--History.
Criminal justice, Administration of--New York (State)--History.--History.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Decision making.
Pardon.
Parole.
New York (State)
History.

Notes:

Also available as an ebook. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Governors of New York, 1777-1942. Governing mercy in the emerging republic -- Mercy and diversity: the pardon power in the early national period -- Debating the pardon in antebellum New York -- The pardon and the progenesis of parole in the mid-19th century -- Reformulating discretion in the mid- to late-19th century -- The entanglement of parole and pardoning in the Progressive Era -- The crime wave and the war against discretionary justice in the 1920s -- Epilogue: mercy, parole and the failed search for penal certainty -- A note on sources -- Governors of New York, 1777-1942.

ISBN:

1479899925
9781479899920

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950543338

LCCN:

2016023898

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)