Carolyn Strange, Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression
At least since Caesare Beccaria’s time, critics have attacked the power of a sovereign or head of state to pardon or reduce the punishment of people convicted of crimes. They charge that clemency diminishes the certainty of punishment and places the ruler outside of the rule of law. Carolyn Strange...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2020
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |