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  title info:
    title: Normalizing extreme imprsonment
    sub title: the case of life without parole in California
  name:
    name part: Vannier, Marion
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: A critical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP). This book presents a unique case study of the 'normalization' of LWOP and the extent to which groups and individuals within civil society who challenge capital punishment have helped normalize LWOP by fostering the belief that it is humane and merciful.
  table of contents: List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The origins of LWOP in California; 1. Introduction; 2. The utilitarian function of LWOP; 3. The humanitarian justification for LWOP; 4. Preserving the death penalty; 5. LWOP and the punitive turns; 6. Conclusion -- 2. Campaigning for LWOP; 1. Introduction; 2. The initiative process and the reality of abolition; 3. Educating the people; a) Setting educational goals; b) Navigating a 'tough-on-crime' political climate; c) Shifting public opinion; d) Redressing misconceptions about LWOP; e) Voicing victims' families' opposition to the death penalty; 4. Convincing voters: the 2012 SAFE campaign; a) 'Howl with the wolves, if you wish to get along with them': rallying the unlikely allies; b) LWOP provides 'Justice that works for everyone'; c) Strategic framing of LWOP's severity; d) Opposing Proposition 34; 5. Conclusion -- 3. Settling and pleading for LWOP; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-trial: convincing prosecutors to settle for LWOP; 3. At trial: pleading for LWOP; a) The mandatory application of LWOP; b) Emphasizing the severity of LWOP; 4. Appealing LWOP sentences; a) Post-conviction reviews; b) Challenging LWOP before the Supreme Court under the Eighth Amendment; c) Judicial preceptions of LWOP's severity; 5. Conclusion -- Annex -- 4. Prisoners' experiences of LWOP; 1. Introduction; 2. Procedural death; 3. Carceral social death; a) Life in limbo; b) Exclusions and discriminations; 4. Embodied death; a) Ageing and diseased bodies; b) Violence and suicide; c) Parenthood and parenting; 5. Conclusion -- 5. Normalizing extreme imprisonment; 1. Normalizing LWOP as a 'death penalty thing'; 2. Normalizing extreme imprisonment -- Appendix: Doing research on LWOP in California; 1. Unearthing LWOP's roots; 2. Tracing LWOP's evolution; 3. Interviewing anti-death penalty reformers; 4. LWOP's severity through prisoners' letters; 5. Making sense -- Bibliography -- Index
  note: Marion Vannier.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: Life imprisonment
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: Corrections
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: Réclusion à perpétuité
    geographic: Californie
  subject:
    topic: Services correctionnels
    geographic: Californie
  subject:
    topic: Corrections
  subject:
    topic: Life imprisonment
  subject:
    geographic: California
  classification: HV7254 .V36 2021
  classification: 364.609794
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    title info:
      title: Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment
    name:
      name part: Vannier, Marion.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, ©2021
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  identifier: https://academic.oup.com/book/39959
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 210701
    record change date: 20240201202351.2
    record identifier: in00004770026
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng