Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America

by Scott Phillips and Mark Cooney

Book Overview

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a theory that predicted and explained legal decisions?

Drawing on Donald Black's theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032009861
• ISBN13: 9781032009865
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"